#uniqueness

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

— Max Lucado

#self-image #uniqueness #inspirational

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

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had." [Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999] ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#creativity #originality #point-of-view #uniqueness #writing

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#celebrate #everyone #i #like #me

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

#naming #precision #seeing #takes #uniqueness

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#any #character #deliver #depth #english

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#commonplace #creations #living #nature #nothing

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way? ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#life #uniqueness #life

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#love #uniqueness #love

So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd! ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-different #being-yourself #conformity #different #fitting-in