Quotes about Uniqueness

This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them.

Unless you're influenced by my uniqueness, I'm not going to be influenced by your advice. So if you want to be really effective in the habit of interpersonal communication, you cannot do it with technique alone. You have to build the skills of empathic listening on a base of character that inspires openness and trust. And you have to build the Emotional Bank Accounts that create a commerce between hearts.

I think each of us has an internal monitor or sense, a conscience, that gives us an awareness of our own uniqueness and the singular contributions that we can make.

Through deep thought and the exercise of faith and prayer, we began to see our son in terms of his own uniqueness.

As one successful parent said about raising children, 'Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

As one successful parent said about raising children, "Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.

I was too weird, even for the weirdos. And girls? Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying.

As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

There is no model conversion. There is no prescribed ritual, whether emotional or liturgical. We are all different. God is the same and has the same salvation to work in us, but he creates an original story every time.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.