Quotes About Diversity

Some of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that's all there is to it.

displayed in the society's collection? Would

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist.

Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!

Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

They spoke to me of people, and of humanity. But I've never seen people, or humanity. I've seen various people, astonishingly dissimilar, Each separated from the next by an unpeopled space.

O futuro de Portugal - que não calculo, mas sei - está escrito já, para quem saiba lê-lo, nas trovas de Bandarra, e também nas quadras de Nostradamus. Esse futuro é sermos tudo. Quem, que seja português, pode viver a estreiteza de uma só personalidade, de uma só nação, de uma só fé?

Each us is more than one person, many people, a proliferation of our one self. That's why the same person who scorns his surroundings is different from the person who is gladdened or made to suffer by them. In the vast colony of our being there are many different kinds of people, all thinking and feeling differently.

On the other side sit we — the errand boy from around the corner, the unruly playwright William Shakespeare, the barber who tells stories, the schoolmaster John Milton, the shop assistant, the vagabond Dante Alighieri, those whom death either forgets or consecrates and whom life forgot and never consecrated.

Signora, tutte le religioni sono vere, per quanto possano sembrare tra di loro opposte. Sono simboli differenti della stessa realtà, sono come la stessa frase detta in varie lingue; tanto che non si intendono gli uni con gli altri anche dicendo la stessa cosa.

Minha pátria é a língua portuguesa

Fortunately for humanity, each man is only himself and only the genius is given the ability to be others as well.

But thank God there's imperfection in the World, Since imperfection is a thing, And the existence of mistaken People is original, And the existence of sick People makes the world interesting. If there were no imperfection, there would be one less thing, And there should be many Things, So that we will have a lot to see and hear For as long as Our eys and ears remain open...

Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. (Text 396)

Now he is something anyone can be.

Alcuni amministrano il mondo, altri sono il mondo.

Quanto mais eu sinta, quanto mais eu sinta como várias pessoas, Quanto mais personalidade eu tiver, Quanto mais intensamente, estridentemente as tiver, Quanto mais simultaneamente sentir com todas elas, Quanto mais unificadamente diverso, dispersadamente atento, Estiver, sentir, viver, for, Mais possuirei a existência total do universo, Mais completo serei pelo espaço inteiro fora

Yes, the sounds of the city on this long Sunday – so many, all at odds, and all of them right.

Each of us is more than one person, many people, a proliferation of our one self.

The essence of pleasure lies in splitting yourself into more than one person.

Over the diversely high rooftops the light lets its hands slip away until, in the unity of those same rooftops, the inner shadow of everything emerges.

Fernando Pessoa

And in each corner of my soul there's an altar to a different god.

one is as likely to encounter the eccentric as the nondescript, to find people who are but a series of marginal notes in the book of life.