Echoes Across Time

The Attention That Is Also Kindness

Simone Weil said attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Thich Nhat Hanh, Rabindranath Tagore, Hafiz, Albert Camus, Warsan Shire — truly paying attention, to anything, is itself an act of love.

44 total quotes

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I desire that my eyes may always keep the candid innocence of children.

—Juana de IbarbourouPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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Sorrow is a river. You cannot stop it, only learn to swim.

—Grace OgotAuthor & Politician

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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She knew that love was like a seed; it needed care to grow.

—Laura EsquivelNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Sometimes all we need is someone to tell us that we are okay.

—Nikita GillPoet & Author

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

—Simone WeilPhilosopher, Mystic & Activist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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If you want to change the world, start with yourself. Be kind.

—Yasmin AhmadAuthor & Thinker

Contemporary ERA • Southeast Asia

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The world is beautiful, and I am glad I was born.

—Jaroslav SeifertPoet & Author

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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My great concern is not whether God is on our side; my great concern is to be on God's side.

—Abraham LincolnPresident

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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My garden is not a place, but a state of mind.

—Dulce María LoynazPoet & Novelist

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

—HafizLyric Poet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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I can hear you making small holes in the silence, rain.

—Hone TuwharePoet

Post-War ERA • Oceania

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Poetry is the tremor of what is sensed, not always named, a delicate vibration.

—Coral BrachoPoet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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The power of finding beauty in humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

—Louisa May AlcottNovelist & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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Beauty is in the heart, and it comes through in how you carry yourself.

—Alek WekAuthor & Thinker

Contemporary ERA • East Africa

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The happiness of others is often a duty before it is a pleasure.

—Suzanne NeckerWriter, Reformer & Revolutionary

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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I just want to be me, and I like being quiet.

—Sade AduScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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The beauty of the world is almost the only way by which we can allow God to penetrate us.

—Simone WeilPhilosopher, Mystic & Activist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Inner peace is the key to a happy and fulfilling life. Cultivate it daily.

—Dalai Lama (14th)Spiritual Leader

Contemporary ERA • East Asia

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

—John MiltonEnglish Poet and Intellectual

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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Life, like a hummingbird, suspended in the instant, vibrating without knowing why.

—Julio CortázarNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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