S. E. Hinton Quotes

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different.

I'm no different than you.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

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.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

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.

Sometimes we focus too much on our differences, but when we all look up into space, we see the same stars and we see the same sun. It really can be unifying.

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

We are more alike than unalike.

Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers.

When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us.

But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the tree ceases to be an It. . . . Does the tree then have consciousness, similar to our own? I have no experience of that. But thinking that you have brought this off in your own case, must you again divide the indivisible? What I encounter is neither the soul of a tree nor a dryad, but the tree itself.

It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different