Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I'm no different than you.

You can look different but have the same values. That's not diversity; it's conformity.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from each other, but that we are so alike.

I am just like everyone else.

It doesn't matter what you believe in or where you're from. It doesn't matter what group you're in: we're all the same. We all end up in the same-sized box.

Everything in the world is exactly the same.

I think people are universal.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

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

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

I am the same as the public as my fans.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.

I do everything that everybody else does.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

I am just a player like everyone else.

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.

We are all unique in our ways, but celebrating together makes us all the same.

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.

Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before

A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.