Uniqueness Quotes - Page 5

• Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you.

  Rick Warren

  Jealous, Advice, Criticism

  Twitter post from Nov 15, 2013

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• The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the relationship; and in its refusal ever to regard the other as a thing, an object, a utilizability. Sex is an exchange of pleasures, of needs; love is a giving without return. It is this giving without return, this helping without reward, this surplus of pure good, that identifies the uniqueness of man as well as the true nature of the true marriage. This is the quintessence the great alchemy of sex is for.

  John Fowles

  Love, Sex, Men

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• You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.

  Eric Butterworth

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Power

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• Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.

  Kate Horsley

  Loneliness, Water, Soul

  Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.

  Robert Greene

  Character, Unique, Thinking

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• We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "The truth about happiness may surprise you" by David Martin, edition.cnn.com. November 20, 2006.

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• What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

  Bryan White

  Music, Country, Nice

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• We have to get children to understand that not only do they have this incredible uniqueness, but they also have something that sometimes we forget about. They are also potentiality. They are much more undiscovered than they are discovered. And there's the wonder of it. It doesn't matter where they are, they're only just beginning and the big magical trip of life is digging it all out and discovering the wonderful you.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Children, Digging, Matter

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• Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.

  Conor Maynard

  People, Giving, Advice

  "Conor Maynard: 'I wanted to prove I'm not Bieber 2.0'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.

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• If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them.They will find away to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "The 48 Laws Of Power". Book by Robert Greene, 2010.

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• No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

  Kirstie Alley

  Kids, Parent, Matter

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• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Funny Inspirational, Wish, Common

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.12.

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• I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

  Miranda Kerr

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

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• A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Freedom, Joy, Recipes

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Unique

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.

  Rob Thurman

  Fall, Hands, Wind

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• The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Thinking, Safety, Special

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• Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.

  Mark Levin

  Race, Ethnicity, Two

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• Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

  Leo Buscaglia

  Education, Helping, Process

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• Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Order, Two

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Learning, Self

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.

  Robert Graves

  Strong, Philosophy, Party

  Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• When we are seen by the heart we are seen for who we are. We are valued in our uniqueness by those who are able to see us in this way and we become able to know and value ourselves.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Heart, Who We Are, Able

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.115, Penguin

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• It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

  Joseph Campbell

  Done, Waste, Shame

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• Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Unique, Bed, Needs

  Milton H. Erickson, Jeffrey K. Zeig, Brent B. Geary (2000). “The Letters of Milton H. Erickson”, p.17, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

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