Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

I recognize every member of the human family as a brother; and if it was done by human beings, it was done by my brethren.

Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until then it is night and darkness is still with us. Let us pray for the light. It is the peace the world cannot give.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

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.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.