1,454 Quotes About Difference

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

But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die

Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.

Giving gives me a special feeling of happiness and sweet joy. I can rest peacefully at night knowing that I have made a difference in the life of another person other than myself.

We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our lack of empathy, which if we had it would enable us to see that in fact we are all the same.

You are not one of them. You are among them. But never one of them.

If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently.

The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holdingtheir strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renouncesome or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.

As a queer person, I believe almost dogmatically in difference, in the idea that every single person is unique, with their own innate sense of self, and that it is this difference which brings all of us together as one.