Barbara de Angelis Quotes

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that... ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

If you think you’re average, then you’ll be average. If you think you’re ordinary, then you’ll live ordinary. The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You have something to offer that nobody else can offer.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.

No man knows himself as an original.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.

I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.

What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.

I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!

Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.