The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it — Charles Bukowski
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. — Michael Eisner
We can thank our lucky stars when once in a blue moon we find rare and kindred souls along the pathways of our lives. — Laurel Burch
the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. — Charles Bukowski
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. — Rene Descartes
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess. — Josh Billings
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. — E. B. White
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. — Ed Cunningham
That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. — Ellen Hopkins
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. — Dale Carnegie
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity — Shane Koyczan
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. — Oscar Wilde
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. — Walt Disney
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. — Mark Twain
Rarely Image Quotes
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. — Emily Dickinson
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. — Henrik Ibsen
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Rare Life Quotes
Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth. — Mooji
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. — Maya Angelou
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. — Thomas Wolfe
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. — Tom Wolfe
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. — James F. Byrnes
It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys. — Sarah Dessen
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. — S. D Gordon
In life, rewards are rarely linear. You have to work for months and sometimes years with little encouragement or reward to build something that can achieve lift-off. And then you arrive at the next plateau. Where you must work and build again. — Konstantin Kisin
That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present. — Lauren Miller
That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it. — Kara Goucher
Rare Meaningful Quotes
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. — Charles Kingsley
An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy. — Oliver North
In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is. — Jeff Atwood
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility — Leslie Morgan Steiner
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself. — David Levithan
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common. — Stephen King
Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own right is a rare disease. Sharing data globally in this context is really important from a life-threatening perspective. — Patrick Soon-Shiong
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death. — William Osler
Being polite is so rare these days, thats its often confused with flirting.
Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease. — Denis Parsons Burkitt
Hansen’s disease”—that’s the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy—“Hansen’s disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years, America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy — Lou Dobbs
Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions. — Anthony S. Fauci
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let thing happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and many of chemotherapy's other successes were in diseases so rare that many clinicians had never even seen a single case — Ralph W. Moss
A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you examine it with exacting pains. But rare are those among the extremely busy clinicians who are willing or capable of doing this correctly. — Herman Boerhaave
For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous. — Sanya Richards-Ross
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease. — Peter Latham
She Is Rare Quotes
The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not. — Elizabeth Fry
To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare days when a comedian has no jokes, people pardon the lapse. There is no forgiving a saint's occasional day of sin. — Libbie Block
Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure. Fragrance must be introduced properly. A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there. — Oscar de la Renta
Follow your heart and you'll rarely get lost.
She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us. — D. H. Lawrence
And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his! — Michael Moorcock
Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident. — B. C. Forbes
True friends are like angels. They are precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.
The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away. — Anne Lamott
Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring. — Steve Antin
Jeri Brown is a rare breed, who can not only produce a wonderful sound, which is expected from a singer, but can also be extremely creative and has the audacity to musically understand all that she is doing. — Rufus Reid
Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach. — Ian McEwan
Extraordinary Person Quotes
Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn. — Lou Holtz
You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them. — Justin Trudeau
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. — C. S. Lewis
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated. — Donald Woods Winnicott
It doesn't need to be grand, it doesn't need to be extraordinary. It simply needs to be a commitment to yourself. — Tom Bilyeu
Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here. — Jimmy Doolittle
True love is rare and the only thing that gives life a real meaning.
I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. — Paulo Coelho
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges. — Michael Josephson
If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you. — Peter Deunov
He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass. — Shang Yang
Being Rare Quotes
That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here. — Ellen Hopkins
...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Massive success comes down to rare moments of opportunity. Be ready for it. They don't come by often. — Patrick Bet-David
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. — Kenneth Grahame
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. — Mark Twain
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. — Taylor Swift
The world is bursting with wonder, and yet it’s the rare productivity guru who seems to have considered the possibility that the ultimate point of all our frenetic doing might be to experience more of that wonder. — Oliver Burkeman
I look for the good in people. Sometimes I get hurt for it, but it's rare and it's worth it. You may hear me say optimistic things that sound naive. I'm not naive. I've read too much history to be naive. I just think love wins out over the darker parts of human nature in the end. — Lex Fridman
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. — T. S. Eliot
Rare Things Quotes
One thing you should know about me is I never play to lose, Always aim high and rarely obey the rules. — J. Cole
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. — Leonardo da Vinci
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. — Alexander Hamilton
That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing. — Karen Horney
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait. — Demetri Martin
It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value. — Jonathan Ive
A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you. — Tom Freston
Very few negotiations are begun and concluded in the same sitting. It's really rare. In fact, If you sit down and actually complete your negotiation in one sitting, you left stuff on the table. — Chris Voss
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential. — Mary Russell Mitford
... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls. — Lev S. Vygotsky
We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know. — Carl Rogers
I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty. — Merle Haggard
Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you — Lemmy Kilmister
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. — Claude Monet
The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition. — Dale Carnegie
Then came a moment of renaissance,
I looked up - you again are there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that`s beautiful and rare. — Alexander Pushkin
Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward. — Lewis Howard Latimer
We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us. — Thomas Keating
Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare. — Patrick Lencioni
A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place. — Red Grange
America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises — Gil Scott-Heron
[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare. — Wallace Stegner
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances. — Epicurus
I remember when I fell from my first bike:
There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?'
Just dirt in my pockets, handful of gravel...
That's when I realized that getting up is only half the battle. — Big K.R.I.T.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam
I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. — Christina Aguilera
Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women. — Judy Grahn
My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders. — Ronaldinho
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. — Albert Ellis
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