Fitting In Quotes

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.

I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

~ C. Joybell C.

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

~ Ian Wallace

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

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

Don’t try to fit in, try to change.

~ Debasish Mridha

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

I think fitting in is highly overrated. I’d rather just fit out... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes.

~ Golda Poretsky

Don’t be bothered with what you think other people expect of you when it comes to your raw talent.

~ Amber Hurdle

I am too much alien and not enough monkey to fit in here.

~ Melissa St. Hilaire

If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.

~ Joyce Rachelle

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

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

The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

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

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

Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped

~ Alan Sheinwald

No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

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

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

Honestly, if you don't fit in then you're probably doing the right thing.

~ Lights Poxlietner

Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.

~ Joyce Rachelle

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

People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Friends are a wonderful thing. They won't make you feel like a nothing.

~ Justine Hail

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

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

It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too

~ Cecelia Ahern

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

Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.

~ Amber Hurdle

Who cares what insecure people think who are insanely jealous that you are OK with yourself?

~ Amber Hurdle

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

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

~ Brandon Mull

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

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

~ Robert Musil

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

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

You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go.Aren't we all? she said...

~ Suzanne Palmieri

Did other people have this much trouble fitting in, or was it just her?

~ Michelle Madow

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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