Cory Booker Quotes

There's really not that much difference between you and I. And my name really doesn't matter. Hopefully, my heart and my spirit matters to you. Hopefully.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

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.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

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.

Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.

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.

Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

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.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

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.

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

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.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.