Quotes About Specialness

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow.

It's as if the world is full of honeybees and I'm the only flower" -Elena

It is our birthright to live and acknowledge our specialness, our uniqueness, our contribution to life, not because we need others to recognise it, but simply because it is real.

Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?

if everyone was special, wouldn't that really mean that no one was special at all?

I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers.

I'm a unique person, as everyone is, but none of us has more of a right to existence or a right to specialness or uniqueness than anyone else.

special relationship A relationship with someone that we think will contribute to our specialness and save us from the perceived lack we feel within ourselves. This love is not real and will sooner or later end in disappointment. God's answer to this mistaken endeavor is to create holy relationships joined together by His Love.

So society says it's great to be big. But being big can take away from the specialness... The growth thing, it's like a cafe. You open up a really cool little organic vegetarian cafe, and there's a certain type of people that come to it and you really bond with them. And then it gets popular and you wonder if you should make it bigger or open up another one. It's a question of knowing when to stop, knowing when you lose what you had originally.

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

I don't want to change; I just want to be like everyone else. I'm nothing special.

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?

And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?

When you're a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of specialness. But sooner or later the privileges are withdrawn, and all you're left with is a stunned bitterness at the realisation that you're just the same as everybody else.

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.