Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

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

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

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

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.

Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with our audience - be they young or old, Democrats or Republicans, rich or poor, religious or secular.

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

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

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

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

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.

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.

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

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

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

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.

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

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

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.