Quotes About Uniqueness

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it.

If people pick on you, they see something inside you that they are scared of. Something special, which they might not have, which shines out of you like a jewel.

Ratings are no sign of worth. Never judge yourself on them. To be liked by everyone you would have to be the blandest person ever. William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest writer of all time. He has a mediocre 3.7 average on Goodreads.

And she didn't want to live any other life than the one that was hers.

Better to be disliked for being you, than being liked for being someone else. Life isn't a play. Don't rehearse yourself. Be yourself.

do like you,' said Miika, in his quiet mouse language, 'even though you are not a dairy product.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you.

In nature,' wrote Alice Walker, 'nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Shops are to Earth-dwellers what equation booths are to Vonnadorians.

I am not sure I have ever met someone like you," I said. "That is good. What point would my life have, if there was a duplicate?

imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.

if books had to replicate our exact experience of the world to be useful, the only books worth reading would be written by ourselves.

Not every fruit has to be an apple.

Se você tem como objetivo ser algo que não é, vai sempre fracassar. Tenha como objetivo ser você. Parecer, agir e pensar como você. Ser a versão mais verdadeira de si. Abrace essa singularidade. Apoie, ame, trabalhe arduamente essa singularidade. E não dê a menor bola quando as pessoas ridicularizarem ou zombarem dela. A maioria das fofocas é inveja disfarçada. Mantenha a cabeça baixa, mantenha a estamina. Continue a nadar...

In becoming everyone, you are becoming no one.

Don't worry when people don't like you. Not everyone will like you. Better to be disliked for being you, than being liked for being someone else. Life isn't a play. Don't rehearse yourself. Be yourself.

There is only one of us. And we are all smaller than an internet. To enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries. To live on a human scale. To focus on the few things we can do, rather than the millions of things we can't. To not crave parallel lives. To find a smaller mathematics. To be a proud and singular one. An indivisible prime.

If people pick on you, they see something inside you that they are scared of. Something special

Well, what would you say if I said that I have visited my other lives, and I think I have chosen this one?' 'I would think you were insane. But I'd still like you.' 'Well, I have. I have had many lives.' He smiled. 'Great. Is there one where you kiss me again?' 'There is one where you buried my dead cat.' He laughed. 'That's so cool, Nor. The thing I like about you is that you always make me feel normal' And that was it.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it.

I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.

This truth--to prove, and make thine own: Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.

There will always be differing opinions, different moral codes, different ethical standpoints. We must accept that virtually nobody else will share our exact unique shade of moral ambiguity, and learn to live with that.

The world doesn't need another Mother Teresa. The Church doesn't need another Francis of Assisi. The world needs you. The Church needs you.