Paula Patton Quotes

I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.

I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.

At the end of the day we feel the same; we all hurt.

If we remove all judgment and preconceived ideas of who a person is, the truth is, we are all blessed with the same emotions and desires.

No matter where you come from, we all share the same struggles as human beings, and my beginning is no different.

We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

Things that feel super personal actually feel really universal. It's sort of the more you really identify something specific within yourself, the more people connect to it because ultimately we are all connected in some way.

You see my tears, in the rain underneath it all, we're just the same.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

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 really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.

If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

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.

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.