Lisa Stansfield Quotes

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the more people have come forward, I've really realized that we're all kind of going through the same thing at the same time.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

It's important to me to create archetypes of human experiences and make them so that the song has a sense of purpose when you experience those emotions. You know, just making people feel like they're not alone.

I wanted to get people to feel where I'm coming from and connect with people who are feeling the same way that I am.

Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived and breathed and sometimes worried about very different things and sometimes worried about the same things we do.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

‎When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self. For you see, nothing is accomplished without others. When you eliminate the concept of separation from your thoughts and your behavior, you begin to feel your connection to everything and everyone.

No matter how you look, we all hurt the same, cry the same, and feel joy the same.

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.

What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.

My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.