CURATED COLLECTION

Seeing Yourself in Others

The moment of recognition — when you see your own experience in a stranger's face — is one of the quietest forms of grace.

50 quotes found

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As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

—Audrey HepburnActress & Humanitarian

Late Modern ERA • Western Europe

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If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.

—Emily DickinsonPoet

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

—Mother TeresaCatholic Nun & Founder

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

—Mother TeresaCatholic Nun & Founder

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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I truly believe in giving back and helping others. It’s a huge part of my life.

—Naomi CampbellAuthor & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

—Simone de BeauvoirExistentialist Philosopher & Feminist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Only when one has suffered, can one truly understand the suffering of others.

—Ba JinNovelist & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'

—C.S. LewisWriter & Theologian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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We need to internalize this idea: We are all in this together. No one is above anyone else.

—Barack ObamaPresident

Digital Age ERA • North America

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To love is to see a miracle invisible to others.

—Marina TsvetaevaPoet

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

—Paulo FreirePhilosopher

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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Connection is why we're here. It is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

—Brené BrownAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

—Desmond TutuTheologian

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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Conquer anger with love, evil with good, the miser with generosity, the liar with truth.

—Gautama BuddhaSpiritual Teacher

Ancient World ERA • South Asia

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My biggest joy is making people around me happy. Giving back is everything.

—DavidoScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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My children learned that they had a duty to look after other people's children.

—Albertina SisuluActivist

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

—Mother TeresaCatholic Nun & Founder

Post-War ERA • South Asia

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And this was good, for man is a gregarious animal and he loves his like.

—John SteinbeckNovelist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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The only warmth in this world comes from the warmth of human contact.

—Maria DąbrowskaNovelist

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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To love another person is to see the face of God.

—Victor HugoPoet, Novelist & Dramatist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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