Shared Humanity Quotes

“I told myself that evening what I had been telling my clients for years. I am more than broken. In fact, there is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can’t otherwise see; you hear things you can’t otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“A lot of people like to listen to people talk about death because we don't do it enough...We make it taboo, and I think that gives it too much power...I hope that for some of you, this made sense. That the uncertainty I felt while typing it clicked something into place for you. In a world where we strive to be different, to stand out, to be unique and not be like anyone else, sometimes it's nice to know that we aren't different...We're all scared little apes burdened with thoughts, worries, and uncertainties. Even our fight to be different proves we're the same.”
― Daniel Sloss, Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life

“The most important project at this moment in history is to reclaim a social connection to the human persona, to move away from dehumanizing and otherizing in the direction of co-humanizing.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Co-Human Harmony: Using Our Shared Humanity to Bridge Divides

“Magic does not belong to Shénnóng. It is not unique to one god or the other. Those are human terms, human rules. All magic is the same. It is only the vessel that shapes it.”
― Judy I. Lin, A Venom Dark and Sweet

“Being a global citizen means appreciating our shared humanity no matter what nation you call home.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Beyond Diversity

“Our humanity is global. You will find this shared humanity indomitably present in every circumstance of life. Therefore, if we dare to appeal to the commonality of our shared humanity as our primary and unrelenting endeavor, we would utterly transform what is being completely destroyed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A mage in his ire is a terrible, terrible thing, my lords. But you know what a mage is also? He's human. He has...the same lofty aspirations to die peacefully in his dotage or gloriously on the battlefield...and a mage will keep his sworn word.”
― Terry Mancour, Warmage

“I could be you, you could be me
Two raindrops in the same sea
You could be me, I could be you
Two angles of the same view

And we share the same blood”
― Coldplay, Coldplay - Everyday Life Songbook

“I thought about that marching soldier, giving him neither a uniform nor a nationality, and I grieved over the man's fate.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Moritati i legende

“Idolatry is inherently paradoxical. Were we an ideally-flawed replication of the divine, free-thinking, history-repeating links in an outcast chain on a smaller, mortal scale, or is our imperfection a special dispensation? Are we a sly thought experiment? Shouldn't those we admire reflect this duality and our shared humanity — not a perfection that never was and never will be?”
― Stewart Stafford

“Humor creates safe space. It gives permission for connection without perfection. It allows your Inner Springfield residents to gather, awkward and messy, and still toast marshmallows over the burning remains of a failed potluck without blaming anyone for bringing the wrong salad.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor

“Allah promises to reward us in multiple ways, both in this world and in our Hereafter, for sharing our wealth with those less fortunate than ourselves. When a Muslim sees another person who is suffering he shares the pain of that person and opens his heart by generously sharing his possessions.”
― Sheikh Gulzar-Sharing knowledge