Elizabeth Strout Quotes

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

There's so much more to people than their differences.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

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

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

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

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

Everyone can relate to me no matter what race or who you are or how you feeling.

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.

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

There's not many people that I can't relate to and can't share experiences with.

I feel like the world would be a better place if more people experienced a little bit of someone else's experience.

The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we're all same.

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

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.