Quotes About Uniqueness

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy.

It might have been done before, but it hasn't been done by you!

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?

What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches!

She did not need a library; she was a library.

So you are industrious, but not original?

I had creativity within me that was original; I had a personality within me that was original; I had dreams and perspectives and aspirations within me that were original.

Nobody could ever be like that bottomless well of a man—that walking confessional booth who could absorb whatever you told him without judgment or alarm. Nobody else could be that beautiful dark soul, who always seemed to straddle the worlds of life and death. Nobody but Frank was Frank

we can't just follow Paris for the sake of Paris.

But this is a city that gets born anew in the fresh eyes of every young person who arrives here for the first time. So that city, that place—newly created for my eyes only—will never exist again. It is preserved forever in my memory like an orchid trapped in a paperweight. That city will always be my perfect New York. You can have your perfect New York, and other people can have theirs—but that one will always be mine. —

it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now

don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be.

I did believe that my behavior made me unusual – because it didn't seem to match the behavior of other women – but I didn't believe that it made me bad.

it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection

did believe that my behavior made me unusual—because it didn't seem to match the behavior of other women—but I didn't believe that it made me bad.

You are different. She lifted a hand to delicately trace his hairline. He closed his eyes, feeling her fingers tremble against his skin. For whatever reason, she said softly, when you are with me, you are simply Isaac and I am Coral.

She'd never find another man like him as long as she lived. He was ruining her for any other, and the pleasure of it was beyond bearing.

Each life deserves its own measure of respect; they are not kindling wood, to be bundled together.

The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.

I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

No two people knit alike, look alike, think alike; why should their projects be alike? Your sweater should be like your own favorite original recipes - like nobody else's on earth. And a good thing too.

My autism is part of who I am, not all of who I am.

If I won't be myself, who will?