Ameen Rihani Quotes

Laughter is such a healing thing, and through laughter, we find commonalities with each other. There's a lot of separation in the world, and by creating more things to laugh at, we can create a common ground for open discussion.

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.

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?

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

There's really not that much difference between you and I. And my name really doesn't matter. Hopefully, my heart and my spirit matters to you. Hopefully.

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.

We are all alike, on the inside.

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

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

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 have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

Everyone can relate to me no matter what race or who you are or how you feeling.

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

I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us.

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

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 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.

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.

Whatever I talk about onstage is just my story. My fan base is broad... We all have the same mom; it's just that ours has an accent.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.