When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

خوف المرء من أن يصير مختلفا، هو ماينمع غالبية الناس من البحث عن سبل جديده لحل مشاكلهم.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform
and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends.

Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are the things they try to repress. The imitate and make out they love life!

"No culture exists within which everyone does not feel "different" from others and does not consider such "differences" to be legitimate and necessary. Far from being radical and progressive, the current glorification of difference is merely the abstract expression of an attitude common to all cultures. There exists in every individual a tendency to think of himself not only as different from others but as extremely different, because every culture entertains this feeling of difference among the individuals who compose it."

The part in each of us that we feel is different from other people is just the part that is rare, the part that makes our special value - and that is the very thing people try to suppress. They go on imitating. And yet they think they love life

"Am I weird?"

"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

Everyone is different from each other, but that doesn’t mean everyone should be indifferent to each other.

Remember, people suffer only because they think things ought to be different from what they are.

At the danger of waxing nostalgic about the ‘old days,’ I don’t want to be like everyone else. I want acceptance, but I want acceptance of my difference, not my sameness. It’s a funny contract. The cultural machine wants to chew everyone up and turn them into this uniform little substance.