Quotes About Uniqueness

I've always had a fear of being small and ordinary.

To keep people from the particulars of your life kept you from being seen as one thing or another, and so it was possible you could be thought of as anything, or even as everything.

But of course people were different, she remembered; they were allowed to be different.

But she became Gabby's friend in that way that can happen, because the girl with the cool boots always finds the girl with the occasional slash of pink in her hair. The two of them like a pair of exotic birds dipping over the school's water fountains—you knew they would find each other.

Let me show you what I know of it," he murmured. "Your mouth can be considered a hundred ways. Rico would look at it and he would see the light and shade; Byron Sawyer would see the color; yet another artist might see the line. A hundred truths, and not one is wrong. There are no original ideas, darling, only original visions. Each of us would draw your lips a different way, yet none of us could capture the complete essence of them.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Riley Carlson: So I guess I know what you wanted to tell me. I mean, you made it pretty clear that you don't want to go out with an average girl. Marc Hudson: That's right, I don't. I want to go out with YOU. There's nothing average about you, Riley.

while remaining fundamentally—and sometimes maddeningly—who we are.

Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.

Nobody is "superior" to anybody else, only "different", that is all!

The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun!

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!

Forse la pazzia non è l'ebetudine, non è il monologare franto e farneticante dei disperati che si aggirano sui marciapiedi delle stazioni, è la diversità che separa dagli altri, dalle altre, è la speranza, il sogno, quasi la pretesa di avere un destino. Di non essere un ombra senza storia, un fantasma che scivola sul mondo senza lasciare un impronta, e di voler fare qualcosa di importante nella vita.

I'm none of those things. I'm just me.

I'm mine. Not anyone else's.

Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it.

En tots els meus personatges hi ha característiques meves, però cap dels meus personatges no és jo.

Tots els homes són iguals de qui sap quines maneres.

You are who you are, and no one can change that. So be yourself, because no one can do it better.

Para mí seguía siendo Oceanita, pero para todos los demás no necesitaba ningún nombre. No era más que una esposa, una esposa muy particular. Era la primera dama de una aldea sin damas.

treasure your exceptions!. . . Keep them always uncovered and in sight. .

Being very strange kept people away. And if people stayed away, you could never disappoint them.