“There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.”— Stephen Hawking, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Hawking, amazon.com
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“I have no desire for my Twitter feed to be filled with a bunch of people screaming ad hominem attacks against anyone who voiced something different from how they feel.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, rollingstone.com
“I think the thing I love best about New York is that the city pushes us all against each other. You are on the same train as the guy who's gonna sell hot dogs, as the guy who's going to a multimillion-dollar meeting.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, gq.com
“We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction.”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic”— Audre Lorde, amazon.com
“You're not going to share every single interest, and that's okay. The shared interest should be, 'Do we want the same things out of life? Do we both want to be married right now?'”— Erin Meanley, glamour.com
“Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”— S.E. Hinton, amazon.com
“The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.”— James Corden, amazon.com
“And, after all, isn’t that what life is all about, the ability to go around back and come up inside other people’s heads to look out at the damned fool miracle and say: oh, so that’s how you see it!? Well, now, I must remember that.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“People are beautiful. All people, of all shapes and sizes. The fact that we are living, breathing organisms that happen to have opposable thumbs, allowing us to pick up our phones and be on it for the entire damn day, is nothing short of brilliant. What makes us even more magnificent as a species is…”— Connor Franta, amazon.com
“Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control…”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common which is – we all want to be happy.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com