10 Photographs That Will Give You Chills And Leave You Hopeful

This incredible collection of moments represents the joy, innocence, despair, curiosity, and undying perseverance within all of us.

No matter where we’re from, these are the emotions that unite us – it’s what makes us human.

We set out to capture this spirit in 16 incredible photographs, and I truly hope you enjoy.

A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009

(Photo Credit: abc.net.au)

Starving boy and missionary

A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994

(Photo Credit: drugoi.livejournal.com)

Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months

(Photo Credit: Louie Favorite)

Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner

(Photo Credit: James Stanfield)

Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt

A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero in 2011

(Photo Credit: Vanderlei Almeida)

Father and son (1949 vs 2009)

Flower power

(Photo Credit: imgur)

An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers

(Photo Credit: Rafiq Maqbool)

Reference: Professor Buzz