Quotes about Uniqueness

"You don't love somebody for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car; but because they sing a song only you can hear."

And yet love obstinately answers that no loved one is standardized. A body, love insists, is neither a spirit nor a machine; it is not a picture, a diagram, a chart, a graph, an anatomy; it is not an explanation; it is not a law. It is precisely and uniquely what it is. It belongs to the world of love, which is a world of living creatures, natural orders and cycles, many small, fragile lights in the dark.

But there, in her diminishment, she seemed to resemble only herself, as if suffering finally had singled her out.

This world is not his world; this life his life.

The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. I am no such thing, it would say; I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.

Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.

The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. "I am no such thing," it would say; "I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

We all have different strengths, different gifts.

success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.