Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

Every weird thing about you is beautiful and makes life interesting.

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.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

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

You're all beautiful in your own unique ways and there is no one in the world like you and that is what makes us special.

We are all beautiful in our own individual and special ways.

It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.

I think the things that make people different are the things that make them the most beautiful.

No two individuals are ever the same. You cannot equate people. You can only create equal opportunity.

Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

If everyone is exceptional, nobody is exceptional.

Everyone is special in their own way.

If it weren't for people that stand out, this whole world would be really, really boring.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

There's no way Ryan Giggs is another George Best. He's another Ryan Giggs

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

There's always going to be someone prettier, smarter, funnier, better than you - something - but you're you. And no one can take that away from you. Every single person in this world is unique and special and worth something. You can become anything you want to. We just live in a society where they love to kick people when they're down, and they love to put a label on everything.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.