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Daily Inspiration Quote by Jaclyn Smith

"Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique"

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Smith’s line borrows the language of luxury to talk about something more intimate: how we recognize the rare people who feel almost impossible to replace. By comparing “angels” to diamonds, she’s not aiming for theology so much as valuation. Angels, in this framing, aren’t winged beings; they’re the friend who shows up, the mentor who steadies you, the partner who surprises you with decency when you’ve lowered your expectations. The metaphor works because it flatters without sounding syrupy: diamonds are culturally coded as precious, durable, and worth searching for, and “find” implies fate plus effort, a scavenger hunt of relationships rather than a factory line.

The key move is the refusal of manufacture. “They can’t be made” pushes back against the modern impulse to optimize people: to curate personalities, to “fix” partners, to treat self-help like a tool for engineering virtue in others. Smith’s subtext is a soft warning: stop trying to remodel human beings into your ideal. Instead, practice discernment. The line quietly shifts responsibility from control to recognition.

There’s also an actress’s context under the sentiment: a career spent in an industry obsessed with packaging, image, and the illusion of creating stars. Saying angels can’t be made reads like an antidote to that machinery. It privileges authenticity over branding, singularity over replicability. “Each one is unique” closes the loop, rejecting interchangeable perfection and inviting a more grown-up kind of admiration: not for flawless people, but for unrepeatable ones.

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Jaclyn Smith (born October 26, 1947) is a Actress from USA.

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