1050 – “Everyone’s got a gift inside of us, and in all honesty, the pursuit of normality is the ultimate sacrifice of potential. The chance for greatness, progress, and change dies the moment we try to be someone else.”

-Faith Jegede

798 – “America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.”

–Warren G Harding, 29th President of the United States of America

767 – “Progress is not possible without deviation. And I think that it’s important that people be aware of some of the creative ways in which some of their fellow men are deviating from the norm, because in some instances they might find these deviations inspiring and might suggest further deviations which might cause progress, you never know.”

–Frank Zappa

723 – “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”

–anonymous

680 – “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”

–anonymous

283 – “In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other parts of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond.”

–Malala Yousafzai

161 – “I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.”

–Paulo Coelho