Quotes About Diversity

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure.

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.

Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light.

The Buddhists were right, the Hindus were right, the Muslims were right, and so were the Jews. Whenever someone follows the path to faith—sincerely follows it—he or she is able to unite with God and to perform miracles. ... "God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right.

Each arrow flies differently. You can shoot a thousand arrows and each one will follow a different trajectory: that is the way of the bow.

The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses.

Beauty exists not in sameness but in difference.

Why do away with the inequalities? - said the boy. - If we flatten the mountains, the birds will no longer have shelter. If we put an end to the depths of the rivers and seas, all the fish will die. If the chief of the village has the same authority as the madman, no one will know what to do. The world is vast, let it have its differences.

I'm not saying: Seek out people who think the same as you. I'm saying: Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right.

I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything.

Nothing. Although they are flowers you did not count on, they are still part of the garden.

Everything and everybody is the same; this is the mystery and the end.

It's one thing to feel you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

That there is no need for iron to be the same as copper, or copper the same as gold. Each preforms its own exact function as a unique being, and everything would be a symphony of peace

We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky, you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.

And then there were the others, who were interested only in gold. They never found the secret. They forgot that lead, copper, and iron have their own Personal Legends to fulfill. And anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing never will discover his own." The