Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

I'm no different than you.

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

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.

We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences.

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a sense of shared humanity above the cultural layers we place on ourselves [which don't] mean that much compared to the human experience.

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

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

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.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

I think people are universal.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

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

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

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.

When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe.

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.