Therese of Lisieux Quotes

The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.

A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like woman too.

Different is good. Different is great!

Being different makes you beautiful.

There's so many different kinds of beauty.

Some people are meant to be bigger, and that's okay. Because if everybody was built the same, it would be a little boring. We enjoy the differences in each other, and I think that's what makes all of us beautiful.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

I love people. And what I love about people is that everyone is unique.

The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.

My mother always has embedded in us that you guys rock in different ways, and to be able to celebrate that with each other is just beautiful.

I truly believe diversity is beauty.

Every season is a season of its own.

I think the most powerful beauty is representative of uniqueness and individuality of every person.

If you're you, it doesn't matter if you're the most boring person in the world: someone will like you. You're not trying to be anyone else.

We don't need to be categorized - we are all individual and beautifully unique.