“Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.”
~ Deepak Chopra
“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
~ Bill Gates
"Face new challenges, seize new opportunities, test your resources against the unknown and in the process, discover your own unique potential."
~ John Amatt
"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."
~ Maya Angelou
"You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way."
~ Richard Bach
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
~ Sir Cecil Beaton
"Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared."
~ Brene Brown
"A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours."
~ Leo Buscaglia
"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
~ Pablo Casals
"A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves."
~ Edgar Cayce
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
~ Coco Chanel
"Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne."
~ Alice Childress
"To every person there comes in their lifetime that special moment when you are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to you and your talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds you unprepared or unqualified for work which could have been your finest hour."
~ Winston Churchill
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
~ James Cook
"A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe."
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"I am not strange, I am just not normal."
~ Salvador Dali
"You are unrepeatable. There is a magic about you that is all your own."
~ D.M. Dellinger
"We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."
~ Mary Dunbar
"Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel."
~ Melissa Etheridge
"Let’s assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses."
~ John Fischer
"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
~ Viktor Frankl
"Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes in the world come about. So be that person."
~ Buckminster Fuller
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other peoples’ models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."
~ Shakti Gawain
"Dare to be remarkable."
~ Jane Gentry
"If we were all to sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality."
~ Kahlil Gibran
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."
~ Martha Graham
"Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express."
~ Oliver Herring
"My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who’s different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common."
~ Alice Hoffman
"Genius is simply focus on a topic long enough to discover your own unique talent within."
~ Cheryl Janecky
"Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness."
~ Ola Joseph
"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world, but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true, I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you."
~ Frida Kahlo
"The ‘still, small voice’ of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being."
~ Sam Keen
"Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do."
~ Dennis Kimbro
"Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality."
~ Arthur Koestler
"Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves."
~ Richard J. Leider
"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently."
~ Rosa Luxemburg
"You were born to be an original. Don’t die a copy."
~ John Mason
"If you do not listen to your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed our community in failing to make your contribution to the whole."
~ Rollo May
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique, just like everyone else."
~ Margaret Mead
"To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act."
~ Margaret Mead
"All progress occurs because people dare to be different."
~ Harry Milner
"All of us are stars and deserve the right to twinkle."
~ Marilyn Monroe
"The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder in modern life. "
~ Thomas Moore
"No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance."
~ Hortense Odlum
"Creativity pervades human life. It is the mark of individuality. The vehicle of self-expression. The engine of progress in every human endeavor."
~ Elliot Samuel Paul
"Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star."
~ Wilfred Peterson
"You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you."
~ John Powell
"Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got."
~ Steven Pressfield
"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness."
~ Gilda Radner
"Ride the energy of your own unique spirit."
~ Gabrielle Roth
"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
~ Rumi
"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."
~ Virginia Satir
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
~ Dr. Seuss
"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
~ William Shakespeare
"This above all; to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
~ William Shakespeare
"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that on one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do."
~ Barbara Sher
"Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love."
~ Barbara Sher
"Everybody has a strength to share. If we can tap into that – if people can find ways to contribute whatever their particular unique talent or gift is, then, that really can change the world."
~ Bill Shore
"Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another."
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own...For you are unique and more wondrous than you know!"
~ Linda Staten
"Always remember your brilliance."
~ Alexandra Stoddard
"Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable."
~ Brenda Ueland
"You are the colors you choose."
~ Vicky Wall
"Never love anybody who treats you like you are ordinary."
~ Oscar Wilde
"A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted."
~ Marianne Williamson
"Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself."
~ Oprah Winfrey
"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."
~ Oprah Winfrey
"Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?"
~ Oprah Winfrey
"Everything is a once in a lifetime experience."
~ Kobi Yamada
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