Quotes About Commonality

Instead of focusing on, 'Oh, there's a black lady who plays videogames,' focus on that there's another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.

It would distress the girls if they were to realize how much you dislike me." "I disapprove of you," she replied gravely, walking out to the grand staircase with him. "That's not the same as dislike." "Lady Trenear, I disapprove of me." He grinned at her. "So we have something in common.

In death we're all equal.

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Beauty hides a multitude of sins, but underneath we are all the same.

That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.

CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe...

We were very different people outwardly but we shared the same core values and beliefs.

lowest common denominator.

When you keep un-bundling various aspects of a social problem, you can arrive at a very basic, common space.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

I do everything that everybody else does.

I'm like everybody else.

I'm just the same as everybody else.

Appriciating that this oneness is the divine creative power and life of the universe, moving and breathing in the people we meet and the objects we encounter, we will spontaneouly treat everyone and everything with respect, and what Buddhists call "loving kindness." based on the acceptance and acknowledgement of this ultimate commonality, compassion will arise naturally.

Can you maintain the awareness of ultimate commonality while you are fully engaged in your life as a functional ego or a character? I believe you can, and this can be a powerful spiritual practice for anyone. This practice will continue until the gap between those two, your true nature and your characte, is filled, and your character manifests your true nature completely. My guess is that you will find the gap to be very enjoyable to fill.

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

Si on a regardé un homme jusqu'à ne plus voir en lui que ce qui le fait différent des autres, le particulier en lui, il est bouleversant de retrouver avec d'autant plus de force qu'on l'oubliait déjà, que l'essentiel en lui c'est ce qui ressemble aux autres

It was not compassion that led to Daniel's change of heart, and it was not kindness. It was realizing that, against all odds, he had something in common with Jason Underhill. Like Daniel, Jason had learned the hard way that they we are never the people we think we are. We are the ones we pretend, with all our hearts, we can't become.