Faran Tahir Quotes

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

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

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

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

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.

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.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

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.

There's so much more to people than their differences.

I'm human just like everyone.

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.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

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

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.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

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.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart

The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is.