You Are Unique! Stop Comparing Yourself To Others

You Are Unique! Stop Comparing Yourself To Others

We are at war with ourselves.

Sade Andria ZabalaMarch 14, 2017

If I am always comparing myself to others, I will forever be at war with myself. And who needs that?

— Khloé Kardashian, Strong Looks Better Naked

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Today I choose to be honest with myself. Today I choose to accept my sadness as a part of my body because it is one of my primary emotions that makes me who I am. Today I choose to love my way into my journey to my own enlightenment. Today I choose to hope, I choose to dream, I choose to believe in the magic of my becoming. Today I choose to be enough for the person I will be tomorrow.

— Juansen Dizon, Choices

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Grow in your own time peacefully.

— THE SLUMFLOWER, via twitter.com

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Do you like to draw with crayons? I'm not very good at it. But it doesn't matter. It's the fun of doing it that's important. Now, I would't have made that if I just thought about it. No matter how anybody says it is. It feels good to have made something. The best thing is that each person's would be different. In a way, you've already won in this world because you're the only one who can be you. And that's the way it's suppose to be.

— Mr. Rogers, Mister Rogers You've already won in this world

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Stop comparing. Yes, your friend may have arms like Arnold Schwarzenegger or a stomach like Jennifer Aniston, but you are not your friend and this is not a competition.

— Real Buzz, 5 Ways To Feel Better Naked

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If you don’t love yourself for your flaws and imperfections, you can’t expect anyone else to either. Sometimes the very thing we are most insecure about is the feature that people like the most about us. You’re not supposed to look like everyone else. We are each made differently, so find whatever flaw or imperfection you have and start embracing it because it’s part of you.

— Demi Lovato, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year

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It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: 'All the time you're looking left and right at other people, you're neglecting what's in front of you. If you focus on looking straight ahead, you can take the odd glance at the future.' He's got a way of saying things sometimes that just puts everything into perspective.

— James Corden, May I Have Your Attention, Please?: The Autobiography

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If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

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You are hard to look at
not because you glow,
but because you are the drop off of a skyscraper.
You are the distance to the ground,
you are what people fear to fall into,
you are what people risk their lives to see.
And when someone does finally see you,
it is because they were courageous enough to look

— Lillian Shelton, Untitled

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If tomorrow women in the west woke up and decided they really like their bodies just think how many industries would go out of business - the cosmetic industry, the clothing industry, the diet industry, the gym industry - and then think of all the allied industries that support those industries. So when I say capitalism is dependent on women hating themselves, I'm not exaggerating.

— Gail Dines, Dr. Gail Dines

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If Rihanna is teaching women anything about style today, it’s not to give a fuck.

— Karizza Sanchez, What Rihanna Is Teaching Women About Style in 2014

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The minute you learn to love yourself, you would not want to be anybody else.

— Rihanna, From Her Speech At The 2016 BET Awards

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I hope that you do not let the world condemn you for being too loud, too expressive, too soft; that you do not let it convince you to be perfect instead of real. I truly hope that you celebrate the fact that you are not for everyone, that you are not impressing the kinds of people who were built on the foundations of a sad world. If there is anything you do, please, let yourself rejoice in the fact that you do not fit in, that you think differently, because there is a chaos that laughs inside of you and it is going to change lives. It is going to make even the cynics believe again. It is going to grow love from thorn and glass.

— Bianca Sparacino, You Are Not For Everyone

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Don't compare. This is a big one, and something our society loves to do. Comparing keeps us small. It lowers our energy. Quite simply, it feels like crap.

— Kate Eckman, 7 Tips For Loving & Honoring Your Body (Yes, Even The "Flaws")

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The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

— Shan Gogh, 19 Things I Have Learned About Happiness In 19 Years

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Other people’s happiness are not units of measurement for yours. Respect the pace of your growth.

— Sade Andria Zabala, 14 Essential Steps To Love Yourself Every Single Day

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If you’re not grappling with self-doubt half the time, you’ve probably lost perspective. The confident ones give us the worst and most lifeless bullshit.

— Adam Gnade, The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad

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Does the sun ask itself, ‘Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?’ No, it burns and it shines. Does the sun ask itself, ‘What does the moon think of me? How does Mars feel about me today?’ No it burns, it shines. Does the sun ask itself, ‘Am I as big as other suns in other galaxies?’ No, it burns, it shines.

— Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood

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Don’t look to other people for validation. Your birth was your validation.

— Anonymous, Humans of New York

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It’s taken me a long time to be happy with my body and for my confidence to grow to what it is today. I grew up when the body to have was the tall, slim, supermodel one, like Cindy Crawford’s. No one looked like me. It’s good to break the mould and recreate one.

— Kim Kardashian, Kim: 'It Bothers Me That Im Not Pregnant'

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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

— Anaïs Nin, The Artidote

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They were great men, with huge flaws, and you know what — those flaws almost made them greater.

— Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production

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You are flawed, imperfect, and unique… and that’s okay.

— Macaile Hutt, 7 Affirmations to Tell the Person in the Mirror. | Rebelle Society

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You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that. Don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder that you are. Every star is important to the sky.

— Douglas Pagels, 100 Things to Always Remember and One Thing to Never Forget: Words to Live by and Wishes to Share - Updated Edition -

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I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.

— Fritz Perls, Gestalt Prayer

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Normalness leads to sadness.

— Phil Lester, The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire: The World of Dan and Phil

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Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all different people and we're allowed to be different from on another.

— Ellen Degeneres, Seriously...I'm Kidding

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Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

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Don’t pretend to be someone else just to get attention. Dress the way you want to be treated. Your look is part of your self-expression, not a billboard to scream your latest crisis. Give yourself a makeover to signal your new life but to thine own fabulosity be true.

— Abiola Abrams, 7 Ways To Not Seem Desperate (When You Sorta Are) - Gurl.com

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Your innate desire for self-improvement causes you to measure yourself against others, which is good if it inspires you to become a better person. It’s when you measure your worth based on others’ opinions, that you start having doubts.

— Bailey Jackson, How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others: An Essential Guide to Developing Self-Esteem and Learning How to Stop Being Envious or Jealous of Others

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Don't compare your results to someone else's. You can never be another person, you can only be a better version of yourself.

— Fitness Motivation, via twitter.com

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The most important thing you will ever do in your life is learn to embrace your unique, honest self. A boundless, infinitely populated universe and there is nothing else here quite like you. This is your power. All those things that make you strange and different are what make you irreplaceable.

— Beau Taplin, via afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com

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A mindful person accepts who they are and gives that same respect to the people that share in his/ her life. Making comparisons cheapens what is unique about a person. Being mindful means refusing to compare your life path with others, and also never expecting your partner to be someone who they are not.

— Simeon Lindstrom, Codependency - "Loves Me, Loves Me Not": Learn How To Cultivate Healthy Relationships, Overcome Relationship Jealousy, Stop Controlling Others and Be Codependent No More

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Never compare your insides to someone else's outsides.

— Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography

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Because really, that’s what comparison does: it makes life all about me, how I measure up or fall short. And all that self-absorption consumes our mental energy and prevents us from enjoying life.

— Kay Wills Wyma, I'm Happy for You (Sort Of...Not Really): Finding Contentment in a Culture of Comparison

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When you start to compare yourself to other people, please change the channel in your mind to something else, because I think that when it comes to how we see ourselves, other people are really mean, but we’re really mean to ourselves. And so it’s easy to get confused. And when you do get confused, um, and you start feeling like you’re not special, or you’re not different, or you have nothing important to say – we all feel like that sometimes. What I want you to do right now, if there’s one thing you remember from tonight, remember what I’m about to say. You need to look into the mirror in the morning and not tell yourself that you’re not special.

— Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift - 1989 Tour

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