S. E. Hinton Quotes

It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.

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

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.

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?

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

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

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 are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

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.

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

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.

I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

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.

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.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

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

Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.

I'm no different than you.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I'm just like my fans, and that's the way I like it.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.