#unique

Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#uniqueness #imagination

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#done #effort #first #first time #focused

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-expression #uniqueness #life

To have distinctiveness is to believe in the distinctiveness of everyone else, because distinctiveness is not mine but is God’s gift by which he gives being to me, and he indeed gives to all, gives being to all. (p. 271) ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#unique #love

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#human #into #man #most #obstacles

Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another. (94) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#uniqueness #universe #yoga

I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred! ↗

— Richard Chamberlain

#admire #after #alike #attributes #carbon

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#fiction #needs #perception #pressure #secret

If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it's so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#before #city #cooler #find #first

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. ↗

— Walt Disney

#else #less #like #makes #more