Ashraf Ghani Quotes

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

I'm no different than you.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

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

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

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.

People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.

I want everyone to identify with my tracks and for all of us to be part of it in some way or another.

That's my message: I'm not alone, and neither is anyone else.

We are all human beings. We all have the same blood in our veins.

My message to everyone is that we truly are one, and the minute you see me as the person, not just as the Muslim - when you see me as Adeel Alam and not just the character on TV - when you see past all of that, we are all the same, and we are all just one.

When you're in part of the same draft class, you always have a certain connection that not many other people can have with each other.

I can share my experiences with people, and they identify with it and sing it back to me. That's the best feeling in the world.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

We're all people at the end of the day.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life...I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the more people have come forward, I've really realized that we're all kind of going through the same thing at the same time.

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.