"We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help"
About this Quote
The line “look into the eyes” is a classic humanitarian trope, a shorthand for authenticity. It suggests that compassion becomes real only when it’s face-to-face, unmediated by news footage or charity mailers. But it also reveals the subtext: the trip is as much about emotional conversion for the visiting family as it is about material aid for the community. The beneficiaries become mirrors in which the visitors can see their own goodness clarified.
Even “in some way help” stays deliberately vague. Vagueness protects the speaker from overpromising and keeps the focus on intention, which is safer in public. As an actress, Sellecca is working inside a familiar script of public benevolence: emphasize gratitude, mention family (to soften any whiff of self-promotion), and gesture toward transformative encounter.
Culturally, the quote sits in that late-20th-century/early-2000s ecosystem of celebrity philanthropy, where access and visibility are currency. The emotional pitch is sincere, but the structure of the sentence still centers the helper’s experience. That’s the quiet tension it can’t quite resolve.
Quote Details
| Topic | Gratitude |
|---|---|
| Source | Help us find the source |
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Citation Formats
APA Style (7th ed.)
Sellecca, Connie. (2026, January 17). We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-feel-really-blessed-to-have-been-asked-to-come-46349/
Chicago Style
Sellecca, Connie. "We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-feel-really-blessed-to-have-been-asked-to-come-46349/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-feel-really-blessed-to-have-been-asked-to-come-46349/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.






