Jihae Quotes

We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.

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

If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely tolerating each other, we miss so much.

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

I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

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

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

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

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.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

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.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

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.

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

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.

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

We have to look beyond what we see as the typical, the 'normal package,' and just see people as who they are. We all have to learn and get along a little better in society.

Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance.

I want everyone to feel very welcomed in the space of our music and our songs, it doesn't matter what you believe or think, I just want to cultivate a space of peace and to touch on these things that bind us as humans.

Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.