#uniqueness

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

Why of course it's unlikely!' I said. 'Oh, by far! The awesome-est things in the world often are! ↗

— Al Yankovic

#imagination #uniqueness #imagination

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold. ↗

— Max Lucado

#self-image #uniqueness #inspirational

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

Life'd be a lot easier if it were like a fairy tale," said Cassandra, "if people belonged to stock character types." "Oh, but people do, they only think they don't. Even the person who insists such things don't exist is a cliché: the dreary pedant who insists on his own uniqueness! ↗

— Kate Morton

#uniqueness #life

the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way. ↗

— RKSJ

#life #special #uniqueness #life

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

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. ↗

— Anna Wintour

#fashion #look #people #quote #quotes

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#human-condition #humanity #individuality #uniqueness #perception