Being Different Quotes

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?

Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.

It was almost painful to be different.

Freedom means nothing unless it means the freedom to be different

We spend so long trying to be what other people want,
that when we look in the mirror,
we see a stranger.

The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.