Paulo Coelho Quotes

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

I try to make myself look as normal as possible because I like people to relate to me.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.

Whoever imitates a people is one of them.

We're all taught to blend in and behave.

If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.

We grow up, and we need to confront a society to be fit in.

I'm pretty normal. That's why I feel like I hope most teenagers can relate.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.

I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I was raised to pretend.

You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.