Melinda Gates Quotes

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

What I've learned is that at the end of the day, we are all human. We all have that in common.

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.

In this world, and all the things we have going on, we're all human beings.

That really has been my message over the years: 'Hey, we're all in this together, so let's laugh about it a little, please.' It adds perspective to an argument if you know where you're coming from.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It's recognizing that the same humanity - the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security - exists in each of us, even if it's expressed uniquely.

Love is a universal thing that everyone understands. Love, like death, is the only thing that binds humanity.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us in moments of isolation when we think nobody understands.

We're all people at the end of the day.

Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will be.

My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.

I'm no different than you.