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#1

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, attributed-no-source, difference, paradox, significance

1638 likes

#2

“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: difference, differences, droids, fitting-in, generic, generic-people, ignorance, life, life-and-living, living, living-inside-a-box, monotonous, people, societies, society, weird, weirdness

1088 likes

#3

“A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

tags: difference, joker, loneliness, stranger

535 likes

#4

“Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.”
― Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge

tags: difference, friendship

345 likes

#5

“The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
― David Foster Wallace

tags: comformism, difference, individuality, isolation, suicide

922 likes

#6

“We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all colours and all cultures are distinct & individual. We are harmonious in the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don't share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive. I will not blind myself and say that my black brother is not different from me. I will not blind myself and say that my brown sister is not different from me. But my black brother is he as much as I am me. But my brown sister is she as much as I am me.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: brotherhood, color, difference, differences, equality, harmony, human, humanism, humanity, individuality, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life, life-and-living, living, race, respect, sisterhood, society, unity

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#7

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”
― Eve Ensler, I Am an Emotional Creature

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#8

“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: difference

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#9

“I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

tags: belong, difference, different, reason, together, trust

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#10

“We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.”
― Bill Clinton

tags: cooperation, difference, humanity, society

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#11

“It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity that we need! We need not to conform! What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colors!”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: color, conformism, conformity, difference, differences, freedom, human, humanism, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life, living, race, respect

148 likes

#12

“If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you”
― Vincent O'Sullivan, The next room

tags: difference, individuality, normal

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#13

“The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: difference, expression, freedom, individuality, life, norms, revolutionary, society, standards, uniqueness, world

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#14

“I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.”
― bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

tags: difference

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#15

“As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

tags: conformity, difference, imitation, individuality

166 likes

#16

“Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.”
― Shane Koyczan

tags: difference, life, travel

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#17

“The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Because the truth is, we should not all see everyone as the same! We are not the same! We are made of different colours and we have different cultures. We are all different! But the key to this door is to look at these differences, respect these differences, learn from and about these differences, and grow in and with these differences. We are all different. We are not the same. But that's beautiful. And that's okay.In the quest for unity and peace, we cannot blind ourselves and expect to be all the same. Because in this, we all have an underlying belief that everyone should be the same as us at some point. We are not on a journey to become the same or to be the same. But we are on a journey to see that in all of our differences, that is what makes us beautiful as a human race, and if we are ever to grow, we ought to learn and always learn some more.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: color, culture, difference, differences, equality, government, harmony, human, humanism, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, peace, race, society, unity

167 likes

#18

“Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar.

(Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.) ”
― Gloria Anzaldúa

tags: difference, inspirational, spanish, wisdom

136 likes

#19

“He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.”
― H.G. Wells

tags: difference, fighting, tolerance

101 likes

#20

“If you truly believe in something
that is totally rejected by others,
then you've just made a difference.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: change, difference

67 likes

#21

“There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.”
― W. Clement Stone

tags: attitude, difference

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#22

“If you hate difference, you'll be bored to death.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: change-happens, difference

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#23

“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, attitude, beauty, beginnings, confidence, difference, different, future, insecure, insecurity, integrity, letting-go, moving-on, not-caring, personality, pride, proud, quality, self-acceptance, self-love, special, unique

367 likes

#24

“I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.”
― Ellen Goodman

tags: change-the-world, difference, hero

79 likes

#25

“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”
― Goerge Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

tags: between, difference, everyone, exaggeration, gross, love

46 likes

#26

“If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: arguing, belief, controversial, controversy, debating, difference, difference-of-opinion, effectiveness, hate, love, make-a-difference, opinion, opinions, people, politics, protesting, rebel, rebellion, religion

117 likes

#27

“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

tags: difference, god

74 likes

#28

“At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty”
― Cate Tiernan, Awakening

tags: difference, evil, good

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#29

“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. I’m free to choose that something. That something—the something that I’ve chosen—is my faith. My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have, to try to make a difference.”
― Jimmy Carter

tags: belief, make-a-difference, meaning

115 likes

#30

“But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

tags: change, difference, wars

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