"There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people who are different, who have confidence in their own taste, who don't run with the herd. There is not..."
- Erica Jong
"You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky."
- Douglas Pagels
"If the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg, he will die without being born. We are - chick. The world - is our egg. If we do not break the shell of the world, then we will die without bein..."
- Hermann Hesse
"What if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?"
- Donald Miller
"The smaller man said again, 'See the Buddha in everyone.'How different, I thought, that is from Brakhage, who says it is the artist's business to discover the particularity that distinguishes you from..."
- Sharon Doubiago
"Take pride in your uniqueness.You are powerful individual."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
"He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long time with foreigners in South America. He was like a person who had been somewhere that other pe..."
- Carson McCullers
"When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other."
- Lola-Butterflie
"I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come closer together and you learn to accept that you're not special anymore."
- Ann Druyan
"When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness."
- Barbara Katz Rothman