Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

Nobody is just anything... everyone is of equal value, regardless of their station

Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.

I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.

Let's all be different same as me.

I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

No two of our stores are the same.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

As to what we call the masses and the common men—there are no common men. All men are at last of a size.

Different is not wrong.

If all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.

Everybody is important. Everybody has something to give.

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

There’s always going to be someone who is prettier than you, better than you in some way, but everyone has that something that makes them different.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.