Quotes About Diversity

Ratings are no sign of worth. Never judge yourself on them. To be liked by everyone you would have to be the blandest person ever. William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest writer of all time. He has a mediocre 3.7 average on Goodreads.

Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer

A friend doesn't care about the size of your house and that friend can be human, pixie or mouse. A friend may be a rabbit, a friend may be an elf. But a friend is a friend, if they like you for yourself.

person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole.

I do like you,' said Miika, in his quiet mouse language, 'even though you are not a dairy product.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often

A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.

In becoming everyone, you are becoming no one. You are forgetting your root life.

I am not sure I have ever met someone like you," I said. "That is good. What point would my life have, if there was a duplicate?

Una persona è come una città. Non puoi permettere che alcune zone meno belle rovinino l'armonia del tutto. Ci possono essere posti che non ami, alcune strade secondarie e sobborghi poco raccomandabili, ma le parti belle la rendono degna di essere amata.

if books had to replicate our exact experience of the world to be useful, the only books worth reading would be written by ourselves.

Not every fruit has to be an apple.

In becoming everyone, you are becoming no one.

There are more possible ways to play a game og chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. So it gets very messy. And there is no right way to play; there are many ways. In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything.

did notice that some of the buildings were larger and—relatively speaking—more ornately designed than others. Temples to the orgasm, I imagined.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath

can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

But know this. Men are not from Mars. Women are not from Venus. Do not fall for categories. Everyone is everything. Every ingredient inside a star is inside you, and every personality that ever existed competes in the theater of your mind for the main role.

A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few lees desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.

The books were all green. Greens of multifarious shades. Some of these volumes were a murky swamp green, some a bright and light chartreuse, some a bold emerald and others the verdant shade of summer lawns.

but there is a comfort in knowing it is possible to view any single thing in multiple ways.

These books are portals to all the lives you could be living.

excellent outcomes were the result of 'the wise choice of many alternatives'.