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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.C. Joybell C.
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You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in. .Mandy Hale
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Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?Rabih Alameddine
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Don’t be bothered with what you think other people expect of you when it comes to your raw talent.Amber Hurdle
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I am too much alien and not enough monkey to fit in here.Melissa St. Hilaire
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If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.Joyce Rachelle
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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]Paul McHugh
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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?.Scott Stabile
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The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.Matshona Dhliwayo
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I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can do. It is a terrible sickness. And I thank God for those who have forced me again and again toward a wartime mind-set.John Piper
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Cheers to all the Rebels out there who care way too much about Art and Truth and Magic to fall in line with the mundane task of fitting in.Scott Stabile
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Why do the birds return?” “ What d’you mean?” Brandon looked lost all of a sudden. “ I mean, they could go anywhere. They’re free…so why do they return to this place?” Brandon grinned. “Cause home’s home no matter how bleak.S.R. Crawford
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Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshapedAlan Sheinwald
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It’s better to be a “misfit” than a “one-size-fits-all”!Mandy Hale
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No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.Catherynne M. Valente
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Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.Oliver Gaspirtz
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Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.Joyce Rachelle
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Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.Criss Jami
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People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.Shannon L. Alder
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Friends are a wonderful thing. They won't make you feel like a nothing.Justine Hail
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It was happening. At least in that little section of the salon, women were connecting and doing what women knew how to do, show compassion, nurturing–helping someone fit in.Terri Gillespie
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For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness" or "uniqueness" as an individual. In the world there are lots of social groups people can fit into, and I've spent time roaming in and out of a few and being kicked out of many. Now I stand on the outside and look in. Wondering where is my place. Coming to a conclusion, I have no place.Laura Hanna
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.Bernard M. Baruch
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Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.Amber Hurdle
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Who cares what insecure people think who are insanely jealous that you are OK with yourself?Amber Hurdle
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy, it's dismissive. 'But I don't understand this person', so they're crazy. That's bullshit cause people are not crazy, they strong people, maybe their environment is a little sick.Dave Chapelle
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Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.Brandon Mull
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Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.Joyce Rachelle
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One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.Robert Musil
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Why, you'll be 'changed, m'dear. We'll just swap you for a human child who'll make a good servant to the Band. Half Humans never work out 'mongst the Folk. No, never do."" But-- I'm half Folk too... What if I never work out 'mongst the humans?"" Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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His eyes searched hers. “I’d rather just be me. Feel comfortable in my own skin and be able to speak my mind without having to carry a damned thesaurus. Sure doesn’t seem worth giving up who you are to please others. Far as I’m concerned, they either like me or they don’t. Their choice.Leah Braemel
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You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go." Aren't we all?" she said...Suzanne Palmieri
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Did other people have this much trouble fitting in, or was it just her?Michelle Madow
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They weren't smiling and were looking in opposite directions, but it was as if their bodies flowed smoothly into each other's, through their arms and fingers.. .. There was a shared space between their bodies, the confines of which were not well delineated, from which nothing seemed to be missing and in which the air seemed motionless, undisturbed.Paolo Giordano
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When you don't fit in, be sure to stand out.Johnnie Dent Jr.
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That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn’t know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think about it anymore.Dana Michelle Burnett
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Exactly. We don't belong here. They're not staring out of disdain, Jordan; they're staring out of jealousy. We don't have to be a part of the horrible modelling industry. You don't have to watch what you eat and I don't have to worry about how many zits are on my face. We can be whoever the fuck we want, a type of liberty that a majority of people crave.Unknown
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She may have been among them but she could never be one of them. She was without inclusion for-as-much as she was not "one of the girls" and she wasn't "one of the guys." She was an outsider gazing in, endlessly comfortless, while they wished they had what it took to be less like the others and more like her.Donna Lynn Hope
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Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.Thomas M. Cirignano
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Like a lot of people with mental illness, I spend a lot of time fronting. It’s really important to me to not appear crazy, to fit in, to seem normal, to do the things “normal people” do, to blend in. As a defense mechanism, fronting makes a lot of sense, and you hone that mechanism after years of being crazy. Fronting is what allows you to hold down a job and maintain relationships with people, it’s the thing that sometimes keeps you from falling apart. It’s the thing that allows you to have a burst of tears in the shower or behind the front seat of your car and then coolly collect yourself and stroll into a social engagement… We are rewarded for hiding ourselves. We become the poster children for “productive” mentally ill people, because we are so organized and together. The fact that we can function, at great cost to ourselves, is used to beat up the people who cannot function. Because unlike the people who cannot front, or who fronted too hard and fell off the cliff, we are able to “keep it together, ” whatever it takes.S. E. Smith
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Human tragedies: We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in. Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.Sebastyne Young
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So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!Mandy Hale
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Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.Joyce Rachelle
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Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.Hope Larson