Quotes About Commonality

There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die.

I'm just average, common too. I'm just like him and the same as you. I'm everybody's brother and son. I'm no different than anyone. Bob Dylan - Talking WWIII Blues

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.

Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.

It was nice to be reminded that, for all their differences, there were occasional things that she and Jasnah shared. She just wished that ignorance weren't at the top of the list.

extremists at both ends of the political continuum have more in common with each other than they do with the vast majority of people from their own constituencies.

Compassion- which means, literally, to suffer with- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, What difference do you make? but What do you have in common? It is not excelling but serving that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.

The children of God have more in common then they have differences.

We live in such a celebrity-driven culture, but all those people have to go buy toilet paper, and all those people have products they use and their favorite sweet treats. They all have to write to-do lists, and they're all reading books - well, hopefully most people are doing those things.

One of the things novels should do is shine a light on those parts of us that are common, the fibres that connect all of us. They should convey the sense that we're all connected, coming from the same tree, sharing common roots.

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.

And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.

And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.

I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

We are in this stew together. We are caught in the same traps. With a small twist of fate, I could be sitting across from you, and you could be sitting across from me—both of us in opposite roles. Your problems are a special opportunity for you to learn and for me to learn. We are not cut from different cloths, but rather from the same cloth.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.

Kings and philosophers shit—and so do ladies.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Nimic nu-mi repugn? mai mult ca sentimentul fraternit??ii dintre oameni, stârnit de descoperirea unei josnicii comune. Nu tânjesc spre o asemnea fraternitate vâscoas?.

L'unicité du « moi » se cache justement dans ce que l'être humain a d'inimaginable. On ne peut imaginer que ce qui est identique chez tous les êtres, ce qui leur est commun. Le « moi » individuel, c'est ce qui se distingue du général, donc ce qui ne se laisse ni deviner ni calculer d'avance, c'est qu'il faut d'abord dévoiler, découvrir, conquérir chez l'autre.

I think … you know how they say no two snowflakes are ever alike?" She nods. "Well, I don't think that's true. I think a lot of snowflakes are alike … and I think a lot of people are alike too.

Atheist, agnostic, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, pagan—we all have one thing in common: we want happiness and peace.

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.