Being Different Quotes - Page 9

• What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

  E. Lockhart

  Color, What If, Backgrounds

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.203, Delacorte Press

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• If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it-through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

  Victoria Moran

  Life, Beauty, Being Yourself

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• Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive." And, life-threatening though my vision seemed, I would not repudiate it: "Sometimes I think I shall die from being different even as I cling to the difference fiercely."

  Nancy Mairs

  Thinking, Differences, Vision

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• Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

  Lydia M. Child

  Fashion, Flower, Mold

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• I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal

  Brad Thor

  Moving, Book, Character

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• Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is 'outside-in' - what's out there has to change before we can change.  The proactive approach is to change from the 'inside-out': to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what's out there - I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Empowering, Creative

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.

  Andrzej Sapkowski

  Pride, Vanity, Jumping

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• One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

  Judith Martin

  Emotional, Ties, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?

  Andre Suares

  People, Humanity, What If

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• Love being different, embrace it, share it, live it because being different is not a curse but a gift we all posses that defines who we are and makes the world a better place.

  Katie Chapman

  Hate, Love Is, World

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• Don't focus on being different, focus on being yourself - and your difference will naturally shine through!

  Kevin Eikenberry

  Being Yourself, Differences, Focus

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• Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

  Lady Gaga

  Sea, Special, Talent

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Feb 17, 2014

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• I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Different, Solidarity, Ifs

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• The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

  Alain Ducasse

  Relentless, Pursuit, Different

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• I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!

  Lauren Potter

  Believe, Kids, People

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• I used to hate being different. I used to cry. I wanted to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed like all of my girlfriends. My mom and dad would feel so badly - 'No, it's OK. You'll be happy you're different later.

  Kiana Tom

  Mom, Girlfriend, Dad

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• For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

  Hannah Arendt

  Choices, Infinite, Possibility

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• I never wore a stich of make-up until I got to America. I lived in a world of fantasy it was made up of imaginary friends and make believe lovers. I was also teased a lot for being different because I was shy, solitary, distant and melancholic.

  Pamela Anderson

  Believe, America, Shy

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.

  David M. Raup

  Wisdom, Science, Thinking

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• When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.

  John Webster

  Liberty, Different, Ends

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• In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.

  James Salter

  Character, Pride, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

  Rachel Cohn

  Love, Thinking, Bullshit

  "Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List". Book by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, August 26, 2008.

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• As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

  Orhan Pamuk

  Hate, Imitation, Different

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• I know, now, without a doubt that the true source of happiness, self-worth, and authentic beauty doesn't come from the outside. Women are constantly being persuaded to want something unachievable, to look younger or thinner and above all to fit in because being different is too painful and embarassing. I have accepted myself in a world that does not accept me, because I have learned [ . . . ] that our hearts matter most... It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

  Stephanie Nielson

  Beautiful, Heart, Self Worth

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• All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Powerful, Real

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