Being Weird Is a Wonderful Thing: Inspiration for Living Your Truest Self

"Do you ever feel different? That you're a little weird, a little wacky? Or that you don't fit? Well, Kathryn and Ross Petras are here to remind you that, as Lewis Carroll wrote, "All the best people are." From the connoisseurs of quotes whose books, starting with Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese, have over TK copies in print, comes a collection of thoughts that celebrate the virtues of being different and the power of inclusivity. Quoting from singers and poets, actors and activists, jazz musicians, fashion designers, inventors and philosophers, Being Weird is Wonderful serves to remind anyone that the only approval you need in life is yours and yours alone. That to live successfully is to own-unapologetically and completely-the thing that makes you, you: "If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all." Billie Holiday "(A]ll the colors I am inside have not been invented yet." Shel Silverstein "I am different. Not less." Temple Grandin "The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive." Jhumpa Lahiri As the authors point out, there are 7.7 billion people on earth, and yet no one just like you. Isn't that the most wonderful thing?"--
A new, impulse-friendly collection of quotes from Kathy and Ross Petras, that celebrates our individuality and embracing and praises the imperfections that make us who we are. A gift that says: You be YOU, and you're great!
A gift that celebrates being yourself, in your own unique way. Do you ever feel different? A little weird, a little wacky? It&;s time to own it, because, as Meryl Streep proclaimed, &;what makes you different or weird, that&;s your strength.&; In this inspiring collection, singers, poets, actors, activists, comedians, designers, athletes, and philosophers share wise and pithy reflections on what it&;s like to march to the beat of a different drummer. Every statement is a powerful, positive reminder that to live successfully is to be completely unapologetically you. &;We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That&;s OK.&; &;Laverne Cox &;All the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.&; &;Shel Silverstein &;I am different, not less&; &;Temple Grandin &;The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.&; &;Jhumpa Lahiri &;Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.&; &;Ai Weiwei