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"My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it"
"Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises."
"You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different."
"Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good."
"Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence."
"Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon."
"We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different."
"The god that you believe in, and the god that I believe in, maybe different gods; however, the God that made you, and the God that made me, They are the same God."
"You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful."
"Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life."
"Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways."
"I know I'm different, but I don't think about it."
"One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog."
"I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude."
"We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information will enter our awareness and what will be rejected. If we change the filter (our belief system), then we automatically experience the world in a completely different way."
"Your insecurities are what makes you different and who you are. If we all were the same, it'd be boring."
"There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head."
"For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green."
"History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!"
"I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous."
