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“There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.”
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“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 is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.”
Source : Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.7, New World Library
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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“The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.”
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“Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House
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“One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'”
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“What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.”
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“Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.”
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“In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.”
Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
