A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attempting to "fit in" is not a worthy objective. There is no point in feeling sad or upset when your plans, your ideas, or even your fundamental nature do not "fit in" with the majority view.
Be the courageous hero and stay committed to your greatest ideas and ideals, however they are received by those around you.
Further reading: A hero is someone who has given his life to something bigger than himself or something other than himself. - Joseph Campbell
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