Quotes About Individuality

There are some weeds that are just as beautiful as flowers.

she never wore makeup—just those sharp features, take it or leave it.

Her best friend is me; her second-best friend is herself.

She is not the child that mirrors me, and yet when you put us side by side, there are definite similarities. It's not in the shape of the mouth but the set of it, the sheer determination that silvers our eyes.

Che cosa significa essere diversi nella nostra società? Fino a che punto può arrivare il desiderio di vendetta di una vittima? E soprattutto: che diritto ha, chiunque, di giudicare gli altri?

I tell them that there is nothing more selfish than trying to change someone's mind because they don't think like you. Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected. I

I don't really understand this. When you have so many people, each one inevitably fascinating, why would you limit yourself to only those like you?

We [the Amish] look alike. We pray alike. We live alike. ...But none of these things mean we all think alike.

I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you

The thing that's important to remember about PTSD is that a traumatic event affects different people differently.

Don't think I'm a bad mother. I'm just a realistic one. I knew that Jacob was handsome, funny, and so smart it sometimes left me reeling. It was hard though for others to see him in that light. To them, he just seemed odd.

What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How

What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else?

I tell them that there is nothing more selfish than trying to change someone's mind because they don't think like you. Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected.

Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

There was the finest line between unique and odd

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask...with nothing beneath it?

It is not that she isn't active or that she doesn't eat healthily. It's just how she is made, and if that isn't everyone's standard of perfect, then maybe they just have to revise their damn standard.

Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.

This is what it means to be human, Bex thought. We are all just canvases for our scars.

What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit?

It is also a terrifying prospect: that the relationships we use as cornerstones of our personalities are not given by default but are a choice... p 231

I exist," he said softly.

every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.