Josiah Royce Quotes

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

Everybody is important. Everybody has something to give.

People may be said to resemble the pieces of a puzzle, each unique, yet each essential to bring out a complete picture.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

If I have no children what would be the point of living.

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

One doesn't necessarily have a mission.

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.

What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.