“(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.”
Source: The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
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John Boyne24
Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction 1971Related quotes
“Any of us can be a better version of himself, but none of us can be someone else.”
Andrew Solomon (1963) American journalist
Source: Far from the Tree, Ch. 12 Father, p. 687.
Context: A wise psychiatrist once said to me, "People want to get better, but they don't want to change." But I would propose that it is only by allowing people born with horizontal identities not to change that one allows them to get better. Any of us can be a better version of himself, but none of us can be someone else.
“Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.”
Jay McInerney book Bright Lights, Big City
Source: Bright Lights, Big City
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States
As quoted in Business Etiquette for the Nineties : Your Ticket to Career Success (1992) by Lou Kennedy, p. 8
Variant: Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
Liza Minnelli (1946) American actress and singer
"[G]racefully handl[ing] audience demands for 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow,'" as quoted in "Coy Minnelli wows spirited audience; UM announces MCA construction" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LQY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=QE8KAAAAIBAJ&pg=3215%2C676019 by Alicia Amstead, in The Bangor Daily News (September 18, 2006), p. A10
John Gray (1948) British philosopher
Beyond the Last Thought: Freud's cigars and the long way round to Nirvana (p. 84)
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (2013)