common human experience Quotes

People everywhere are the same; they are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love.

what is most personal is most universal

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.

There is no they, only us. We are part of a large fellowship called the human race. We all hurt the same. We all love the same. We all bleed the same. We all need understanding and care. We can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of the same vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

... vulgarity has no nation.

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

Just remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are.

There is only one universal passion fear.

We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.

I've talked to nearly 30,000, people on this show, and all 30,000, had one thing in common: They all wanted validation...I would tell you that every single person you will ever meet shares that common desire.

I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.

I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history. At least that's what I thought. Now I know: all pain is the same. Only the details are different.

I remind myself that my pain is not unique. Everybody suffers.

We're all human beings. Experience is experience, let's just be honest. Let's not try and dissect suffering into a race, or whatever you want to call it. We're all human beings, one way or another. All races have gone through times that are challenging; that's part of being a human.

More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.