Differences Quotes

“Whatever is different about you is what makes you amazing. Others will try to homogenize you for their own comfort level, because God forbid discomfort. Fuck that. Do not bend yourself to make others feel taller.”
― Rose McGowan, Brave

“Out of difference can come the reinforcement of two important values. One is tolerance and the other is awareness that people who disagree over the things they hold dear really can live together in love and respect.”
― Fred Rogers, Many Ways to Say I Love You

“Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all the love they have to give.”
― Kate McGahan

“Having and authentic voice means that:

- We can openly share competence as well as problems and vulnerability.

- We can warm things up and calm them down.

- We can listen and ask questions that allow us to truly know the other person and to gather information about anything that may affect us.

- We can say what we think and feel, state differences, and allow the other person to do the same.

- We can define our values, convictions, principles, and priorities, and do our best to act in accordance with them.

- We can define what we feel entitled to in a relationship, and we can clarify the limits of what we will tolerate or accept in another’s behavior.

- We can leave (meaning that we can financially and emotionally support ourselves), if necessary.”
― Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate

“Each considers the other to have a fatal flaw in their philosophy which ought by rights to exclude a friendship, and are a little baffled to discover it does nothing of the kind.”
― Sarah Perry

“Forgiveness happens when you stop wishing for someone else to become what you want them to be.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We learn how to disguise our differentness as we grow up. [She] doesn't know how to do that yet.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

“Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.”
― Roger Ebert

“Even identical twins have their own differences.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I wasn't afraid of being alone, but I was afraid of what people would think about my solitary state. People, even well-intentioned people, were always trying to take away our quiet little successes and joys and replace them with big, overarching fears. At this school, the worst thing was trying to rise above the limits set for you by the minds of others. Each girl was an island of her own dreams and insecurities, thoughts that made us different in a deeper way than the differences of musical taste, clothes or even culture. Thoughts about the best way to be stoic, how to live with very little control in life, how to make the most of a miserable time doing something that you were supposed to love. And if people thought that fifteen-year-old girls never thought about these sorts of things, it was only because we didn't have the words to express them.
We talked all the time, but we hadn't yet learned the words to link thoughts and ideas with any depth of feeling, because we didn't really talk to adults. We talked only to each other. And within this little world, we imprisoned one another. You could be anyone you wanted, Linh– until you were judged and held captive by everyone else's thoughts. Nothing has a stronger hold over a girl than the fear of the thoughts of her peers– thoughts that change five times in a day. No wonder things are so complicated with teenagers.”
― Alice Pung

“Menschen haben das Recht, anders zu sein - sogar radikal anders -, vorausgesetzt sie fügen anderen durch ihre Taten keinen Schaden zu.”
― Scott McBain, Der Judasfluch

“I think of myself as somebody who is interested in the differences, the differences between straight society and gay, the differences between male and female, but all of those presuppose a set of similarities on which those differences have to be marked out. Beginnings and endings are the hardest parts for thinkers who utilize such structures.”
― Samuel R. Delany

“All conflict in the world is essentially about our differences in measurement.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

“We were from two different puzzles, yet still, we seemed to fit perfectly together.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Disgrace

“How dare Schlegels despise Wilcoxes, when it takes all sorts to make a world?”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“It was nice to be reminded that, for all their differences, there were occasional things that she and Jasnah shared.
She just wished that ignorance weren’t at the top of the list.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“See past all arguments - all thesis and anti-thesis - all opposites, and only then true productive insight of a phenomenon or a situation would manifest in your mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana

“Što sam stariji, to polako ali sve jasnije shvaćam da su te vrste boli i patnje nužan dio života. Razmislite li o tome, shvatit ćete da je to tako jer se ljudi razlikuju jedni od drugih po tome što mogu slobodno donositi vlastite odluke i mišljenja.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“It is what you do with the time you were given that creates all the differences”
― Sunday Adelaja, No One Is Better Than You

“It is the conversion of your time that differentiates you from the crowd not your faith in God”
― Sunday Adelaja, No One Is Better Than You

“In multicultural societies, there are policies aimed at preserving and developing cultural differences”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century

“External differences do not determine the value of something”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century

“People are drawn to the idea of superiority on the basis of their external differences”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century

“If we slow down and take the time to listen every soul we encounter can teach us something new. Wisdom comes in every shape and size and color and language and form imaginable. The only true limitation is our own inability to see and hear and understand the infinite beauty and wisdom of the human spirit, regardless of its packaging.”
― L.R. Knost

“The historical account we have presented so far indicates that any approach based on historical determinism—based on geography, culture, or even other historical factors—is inadequate. Small differences and contingency are not just part of our theory; they are part of the shape of history.”
― Daron Acemoğlu

“It's okay to be weird”
― Evie Sparkes, Wishful Thinking: Maddie Beaven Could Make Things Happen - Definitely Not A Law of Attraction Book..Maybe, Sort of

“It's not supposed to work that way," her brother said.

Marilyn just looked at him. She didn't think he was right about that. She thought there were a lot of different ways that things could work.”
― Michelle Knudsen, Marilyn's Monster

“Все, кто стали заниматься йогой, перестали есть мясо, травить себя алкоголем и табаком, тут же превратились в «белых ворон». Их перестает понимать общество, родные и близкие, сверяющие свои идеи с накатанным пластом километров кинопленки, программным телепродуктом, пошлыми заголовками газет и журналов.”
― Андрей Левшинов, Живая пища. Сыроедение: энергетика, психология.

“Both the challenge and the spice of relationships is in people's differences. Occasional frustration is the price of admission.”
― Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen

“Scholars in a great many disciplines focus their studies on human beings. The main differences between the disciplines are not the objects of their study nor even the methods they use, but the points of view that guide their inquiries.”
― Paul G. Hiebert, Cultural Anthropology