Quotes About Uniqueness

Coloring excited him, not the act of filling in space, but choosing colors that no one else would select. In the green of the hills he saw red. Purple snow, green skin, silver sun. He liked the effect it had on others, that it disturbed his siblings.

and while all people were bound together by the common space they shared, their journeys through time were all different, which meant that each person lived in a slightly different world from everyone else.

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

in the end, each life is irreducible to anything other than itself. Which is as much as to say: lives make no sense.

One of the odd things about being himself ... was that there seemed to be several of him, that he wasn't just one person but a collection of contradictory selves, and each time he was with a different person, he himself was different as well.

He learned how to look at himself from a distance, to see himself first of all as a man among other men, then as a collection of random particles of matter, and finally as a single speck of dust—and the farther he traveled from his point of origin, she said, the closer he came to achieving greatness.

Cada hombre es distinto de todos los demás, y cuando ocurren cosas horribles, cada cual reacciona a su manera.

Juk tikrasis išbandymas yra b?ti tokiam kaip visi. kai tai ?vyksta, jam nebereikia abejoti savo išskirtinumu. Jis laisvas - ne tik nuo kit?, bet ir nuo sav?s.

a man who is his own man is a better man than most men, even if he doesn't fit in.

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

Some very common foods and drinks are aversive. Few people enjoy, at first, coffee, beer, tobacco, or chili pepper. Pleasure from pain is uniquely human. No other animal willingly eats such foods when there are alternatives. Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans—language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

I don't get why people are so intrigued with being normal.

Do you think there's intelligent life in space?' He grunted. 'Mum always says they'll be just like us. But I'd hate it if they were just like us.

A happy and healthy child is one who is loved without reservation and understood without judgment. But to fully understand, accept, and appreciate our child's uniqueness, we must first come to know who he or she really is. Discovering our child's inborn and innate personality is the first, crucial step.

trying to force yourself to be different never really works.

it's still something of a shock to recognise just how 'multiple' we are.

Our lives are like lace, appearing unbelievably complicated and mixed up to others. It is essential to remember that your life has to make meaning only to you.

Attractiveness demands an ease of being. It's comfortable and relaxed while bearing the mark of individuality.

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Yet I've come to learn that all our stories add up to the same imprisonment. The self-delusion of uniqueness. The festering pretense that we are the same as they are. The gutting of all our passions till we are a bunch of eunuchs, our zones of pleasure in enemy hands. Most of all, the ventriloquism, the learning how to pass for straight. Such obedient slaves we make, with such very tidy rooms.

Being different was about something more than just our dicks.

It is important to use your hands, that is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator.

Just from Farrell stalking away I was absorbing so much, including the fact that at any given moment in history, and excluding nurses and brides, there are only at most three people on the planet who can get away with wearing all white, and Farrell was at least two of them.