“ Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society. Criss Jami
“ A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot. Steven Magee
“ I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but 'yourself.' I know, and you don't, what you really are… Wilhelm Reich
“ All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. Ralph Ellison
“ Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but he did his life mission an… Shannon L. Alder
“ Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify. Sara Sheridan
“ It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who go through a… Lois Lowry
“ Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either! Anthony T. Hincks
“ The way to God is not vertically up. Never down. It is horizontal. Love lights up much of the path. Priyavrat Thareja
“ Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are. Brene Brown
“ But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than th… Mary Balogh
“ As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay. Adi Alsaid
“ Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me—I never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends. Sol Luckman
“ ...the presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh, how it all annoys and exasperates me: their attitudes, their manners, their whole way of being! Th… Jean Lorrain
“ If I had been armed with a feminist understanding that no girl deserves to be called a slut, perhaps I would have fought back by reporting the harassment to my school's headmistress or another school… Leora Tanenbaum
“ Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures … in the eyes of t… Mokokoma Mokhonoana
