Thomas M. Cirignano Quote

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.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

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...

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

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

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

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

So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!

She may have been among them but she could never be one of them. She was without inclusion for-as-much as she was not "one of the girls" and she wasn't "one of the guys." She was an outsider gazing in...

It will happen soon. Someday you will find yourself surrounded by people with the exact same interests as you, and you will never feel out of place again, I say, already wary of the incredible lie I a...