If only you could be yourself.' they shouted. So, she did. 'You are not like me or anyone I have met!' they screamed. So, she blended. 'You are so fake.' they laughed. So, the caterpillar retreated to her cocoon to find peace alone. One day, they came to find her gone. She left a message, “God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see...I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me--better.

— Shannon L. Alder

Never fight any progressive moves unless you can move faster to achieve something different.

— Ferdinard S. Lawson

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

— Tamora Pierce

I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don’t quite understand.

— Dominic Riccitello

If you are different you will berejected. . .If you are same you will be accepted. . .So which one do you wanna be ?

— shivangi lavaniya

Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility.

— Amit Kalantri

Celebrate differences, give love, and more love. Anything short is a rigidity that cuts both ways and spawns odium and ire.

— Val Uchendu

One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.

— Criss Jami

My dreams become reality.Your dreams become forgotten.I guess that's why we're different,I don't fit into the crowd.Whereas you're part of the flock.

— Anthony T. Hincks

I am crazy enough to think I owe the world a change.

— Michael Davi