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Quotes About Fitting in

Identity is something everyone struggles with. Everyone wants to fit in and find their place, and it's so hard sometimes.
~ Jordyn Woods
I never felt like an outsider in the industry.
~ Nora Fatehi
I don't think I'm an outsider at all.
~ Christina Ricci
If they make it, they can blend in.
~ Paul Theroux
There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.
~ David Adams Richards
Forget so-called peer-pressure. It's more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great transcendent horror is loneliness, excluded encagement in the self. Once we've hit this age, we will now give or take anything, wear any mask, to fit, be part-of, not be Alone, we young.
~ David Foster Wallace
I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.
~ Holly Black
I've been asked that question lots of time before, why wasn't I on Live Aid? And quite frankly I don't know. I was riding high in the charts and the styles of music they had were quite varied from Adam Ant to Status Quo to Queen. I would have definitely fitted in.
~ Shakin' Stevens
I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.
~ Rumer Willis
The teacher would want to discuss ways to help Cody make a happy accommodation to his new grade, and strategies for success in fitting in, and the teacher could not hear the truth, would not believe it even if I spoke in plain one-syllable rhyming words accompanied by bright crayon-colored illustrations. No teacher in any school in the Dade County public school system could ever understand the simple unvarnished truth.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I studied in London, so I was high street fashion conscious. For me it was more about fitting in rather than standing out.
~ Soha Ali Khan
I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.
~ Rainn Wilson
Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.
~ Lauren Ambrose
We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great transcendent horror is loneliness, excluded engagement in the self. Once we've hit this age, we will now give or take anything , wear any mask, to fit, be part-of, not be Alone, we young.
~ David Foster Wallace
It's easy to fit into a team like Arsenal.
~ Jack Wilshere
When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.
~ Courteney Cox
Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don't fit in, it's a GIFT. Look at you. you've got your individuality, you don't have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.
~ Courtney Love
Clever folk aren't popular, by and large. They arouse suspicion. They don't fit in. They can be useful, as I proved on a number of occasions, but among the general population there's always a sense of vague mistrust, as if the very qualities that make them indispensable also make them dangerous.
~ Joanne Harris
there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.
~ Jodi Picoult
I wish I could fit in; opposed to standing out and being labeled as weird. I wish I could just be normal.
~ Unknown
If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you
~ Unknown
Fighting to fit in. Confidence is paper thin.
~ Unknown
Of all the places I've ever been, Austin is the only place that has felt like home. I fit in here.
~ Martha Kelly
But even when the words are repeated, they don't seem attached to the world. No. That can't be true. That doesn't make sense. Only last night he. That doesn't fit. No. No, she says. But refusal only works on other people, on fate it has no effect.
~ Damon Galgut