Black Sheep Quotes

“There are only three options for black sheep: live authentically and get kicked out of the community, have the courage to move out on your own and rebuild from scratch, or hide your true self and desperately try to fit in (which you never will).”
― Ben Crawford, 2,000 Miles Together: The Story of the Largest Family to Hike the Appalachian Trail

“If you’re a black sheep or a tie-died sheep or a Carefree Scamp - I’d rather sit around the fire with you than the ‘decent, mediocre types’ any day of the week.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“At some point in the life of every scapegoat, the clock will strike the midnight hour, the masks will come off, and the aggression of family will reveal itself.”
― M. Wakefield, Narcissistic Family Dynamics: Collected Essays

“[Phoebe Broome] 'Well,' she said at last. 'You've now met my father. At his worst.'
[Lord Vladimir] 'Being myself widely considered my family's most difficult member, I would not presume to comment.'
'That is... gentlemanly of you.”
― Alison Sinclair, Lightborn

“There is no flock of black sheep.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“If you are not living with deliberate intention, you're winging it.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“Results have nothing to do with making a good or bad choice.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“Tying whether you feel good to an outcome can bite you in the ass.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“Understanding your motivation for a decision helps you stay committed to it.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“Learn to forgive yourself by forgiving someone else first.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“Make sure your relationships are worth the investment.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“My mother, after stopping her physical abuse, began conveying my private life through a filtered lens to my relatives via phone. She was the 'dutiful mother' and painted our family portrait as a hardship because of me.”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, Heroes Have the Right to Bleed

“In the decision supply chain, you account for your core values, consider all the facts and honor your feelings in the moment.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“Constantly changing feelings can pull us off balance. Our Black Sheep Values help us stand firm.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“Facts can exist beyond any limits you might set for them. Open up your search to find the real truth.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“Sometimes our feelings don't leave room for fairy tales.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“The biggest lie about purpose is that you find it. You don't find purpose, you choose it.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“High-performing teams use deliberate intention to align personal and organizational values.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“When people contribute through their Black Sheep Values, their unique purpose is amplified.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“Your Black Sheep Values inform your purpose, and your purpose fuels your commitment to action.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“Authenticity is impossible if your Black Sheep Values are lost.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“Not a single family finds itself exempt from that one haunted casualty who suffered irreparable damage in the crucible they entered at birth. Where some children can emerge from conditions of soul-killing abuse and manage to make their lives into something of worth and value, others can’t limp away from the hurts and gleanings time decanted for them in flawed beakers of memory. … There is one crazy that belongs to each of
us: the brother who kills the spirit of any room he enters; the sister who’s a drug addict in her teens and marries a series of psychopaths, always making sure she bears their children, who carry their genes of madness to the grave. There’s the neurotic mother who’s so demanding that the sound of her voice over the phone can cause instant nausea in her daughters…. Talk to me all you want about happy families, but let me loose at a wedding or a funeral and I’ll bring you back the family crazy.”
― Pat Conroy, The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

“The lambs in their arms were as smooth as mushrooms, the flock at their heels unruffled. And amid all that froth of fleece, white and metrical as soap-suds, there was no sign of a black lamb.
What more could one ask, at a children’s Christmas Eve service? Yet I found that I did indeed want more, especially for the children’s sake—faces trodden by crows’-feet, signs of the ferment, one might almost say chaos, that this unprecedented event brought once and ever brings; something of life, even in carven faces, someone out of breath with running, someone stricken with joy.
And I dearly wanted a black lamb. For, without him, where are the ninety and nine? Flocks, like families, have need of their black sheep—he carries their sorrow for them. He is the other side of their whiteness. Does nobody understand, I wondered, that a crib without a black lamb is an incomplete statement?”
― P.L. Travers, The Fox at the Manger

“All of my closest friends are special people. Most are very different from the rest of their families. They came here to make a positive difference.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“The black sheep of the family might produce eagles.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“BLACK SHEEP - A HAIKU

Midst a starlit dance,
The moon emerges alone,
Thus she steals the show.”
― Amogh Swamy, On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage

“Underneath all their deserved frustration with the mongoose is often the sort of love one might have for the black sheep of one’s family, a kind of He may be obnoxious, but he is ours.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“You know, you're not pretty enough to get away with being as mean as you are. And you're really pretty.”
― Rachel Harrison

“He'd always been the black sheep, the outlier; with no reason to choose sides because no side had ever chosen him.”
― Dez Schwartz, The Dapper Detective

“If you feel unheard or unnoticed, then your divine assignment requires you to go against the grain and set forth your own unique path.”
― Robin S. Baker