I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses....

We don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

Aberrant is not abhorrent

When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect...

Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong...

The difference between you and him and him and me isn’t different at all: we’re all different.

I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking,...

My parents’ work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?Part of the reason was to keep the family going – to keep me going. I realized that, although...

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn’t make us all the same. But it did affect us. It...

People are so different, so fascinating, each in his or her own specific world, waiting to crash into and effect another. Waiting to discover things about themselves, little details and preferences to build an identity...

And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel more loved, and less, well, tolerated.

Forgiveness is a clean lotion that heals the wounds of misunderstandings! To iron out the differences; get the painful sores dressed up; Forgive and Forget!

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

You’re different. And I’m different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

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...

Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of us who are poor, who...

Lonely and Alone: There’s a difference.

The starting point of Darwin’s theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race or species which morphologists for the most part rightly neglect. The first condition necessary,...

The fact that we’re all different is the one thing we all have in common.

message of truth” found in all of us, that binds theology—holistic virtues combined with purpose is the foundation of spiritual evolution. The diversity among us all is not divided truth, but the opportunity for unity...

We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all...

I had a dream about you. We were both surrounded by poor people, but there was one big difference—I was poor, but you were rich. That’s why I was shocked when you tried to rob...

Look. I know what I believe. It’s in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to...

Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.

normal,” you can’t have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.

It is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be...

loneliness leads you to forbidden lands

Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.

I feel too much. That’s what’s going on.’ ‘Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?’ ‘My insides don’t match up with my outsides.’ ‘Do anyone’s insides and...

People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to fit. You never know, you may hold the unique perspective that when voiced...

When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside...

We’re different, you and I. I am a Rorschach Test, and you, you are a butterfly. No, wait, you are a bat. Actually, you are the Galapagos Islands. Or perhaps you are a failed Pollack...

Observando a mi alrededor y escuchando a mis vecinos jamás pude oír hablar de un ser semejante a mí. ,Era, por lo tanto, un monstruo, una criatura de la que todos se alejarían con repugnancia...

Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our refusal to recognize those differences, and...

the ultimate distance and the real difference between financial acquisition and financial disbursement if financial planning

t is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be...

When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.

We live in a world of contrast and it’s sad we are among people who can’t seem to grasp the differences surrounding them.

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or...

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean.But because they never...