If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

DIVERSITY/DIFFERENCE

1.    Differences challenge assumptions. ~Anne Wilson Schaef

2.    Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness. ~Ola Joseph

3.    Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day. ~Unknown

4.    Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without. ~William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

5.    Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. ~Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

6.    Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. ~Rene Dubos

7.    I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stifled. I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi

8.    I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by its own greatest strength--its diversity. ~Melissa Etheridge

9.    If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. ~Margaret Mead

10.  If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

11.  In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. ~Ambrose Bierce

12.  Infinite diversity in infinite combinations... symbolizing the elements that create truth and beauty. ~Commander Spock

13.  It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. ~Mark Twain

14.  It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. ~Andre Lorde

15.  It were not best that we should all think alike;it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. ~Mark Twain

16.  Life lies in diversity, not in monotony. ~M.K. Soni

17.  People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist. ~Daisaku Ikeda

18.  Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. ~Albert Einstein

19.  The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world. ~J. William Fulbright

20.  The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. ~John F. Kennedy

21.  There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. ~Michel de Montaigne

22.  Variety is the spice of life. ~Proverb

23.  We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. ~Anne Frank

24.  We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. ~Maya Angelou

25.  We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife. ~Earl Warren

26.  We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. ~Jimmy Carter

27.  We learned to know each other and know our differences. This is the way to build the culture of peace. ~Valentino Castellani

28.  What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities. ~Hillary Clinton

29.  When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. ~John F. Kennedy