{"quotes":[{"text":"Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.","author":"Thomas M. Cirignano","tags":["boston","boston-harbor","boston-history","bully","bullying","castle-island","cirignano","discrimination","dorchester","drinking-and-driving","fitting-in","forced-busing","gas-shortage","irish-mob","italian","memoir","murder","nonfiction","osracism","south-boston","southie","true-crime","whitey-bulger"],"id":1557,"author_id":"Thomas+M.+Cirignano"},{"text":"I fit perfectly within my vibration. I am wholly complete in the knowledge that I am who I am supposed to be!","author":"Debbie A. Anderson","tags":["fitting-in","knowledge-of-self","vibrational-energy","who-i-am"],"id":4405,"author_id":"Debbie+A.+Anderson"},{"text":"There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["difference","differences","droids","fitting-in","generic","generic-people","ignorance","life","life-and-living","living","living-inside-a-box","monotonous","people","societies","society","weird","weirdness"],"id":6641,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.[as quoted in 'Brain Gain' by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue].","author":"Paul McHugh","tags":["betterment","fitting-in","people","world"],"id":21060,"author_id":"Paul+McHugh"},{"text":"Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.","author":"Sebastyne Young","tags":["excellence","fitting-in","talent"],"id":26680,"author_id":"Sebastyne+Young"},{"text":"When you don't fit in, be sure to stand out.","author":"Johnnie Dent Jr.","tags":["acceptance","fitting-in","stand-out"],"id":43162,"author_id":"Johnnie+Dent+Jr."},{"text":"I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["fitting-in","individuality","inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational","self-awareness","self-knowledge","stereotypes","uniqueness"],"id":57447,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"It’s better to be a “misfit” than a “one-size-fits-all”!","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["being-yourself","conformity","fitting-in","loving-yourself","misfit","not-fitting-in","positive-thinking","standing-out"],"id":65486,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"Don’t be bothered with what you think other people expect of you when it comes to your raw talent.","author":"Amber Hurdle","tags":["be-yourself","confidence","fitting-in","individuality","success","talent"],"id":69627,"author_id":"Amber+Hurdle"},{"text":"Many of us have gotten so used to playing to the expectations of society, of our families,of our friends, and of our minds, that we don’t even allow ourselves to consider who we really are or what we really need. We ignore the callsof our hearts, giving our lives, instead, to thedemands of an outside world built on fitting in.We can stop this, right now. We can choose to listen to ourselves, to heed our deepest callings,whatever they are. We can give ourselves thefreedom to be whoever the hell we want to bein this world. Right now, if we choose to.And why wouldn’t we?","author":"Scott Stabile","tags":["calling","choose","demands","family","fitting-in","freedom","friends","hearts","listen","lives","minds","society","world"],"id":80752,"author_id":"Scott+Stabile"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}