Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's actually average. Everything about me is average. Everything's normal, in the books. It's the things inside me that make me not average.
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something different from anyone else in the two families. It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
The truth is that you are as unique on the inside as you are on the outside.
Personality begins where comparison ends.
…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.
We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
