Quotes about Uniqueness

I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.

Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.

The only thing they had in common was the grandeur of their vision.

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

Words separate you from the rest of creation, making you more like God than like animals.

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

Our aim here is not to prove that Jesus is superior to other spiritual masters and traditions. But he really is different, and we should acknowledge it.

Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

"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.