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• When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same.

  Emily Carr

  Thinking, Connections, Looks

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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• The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

  Havelock Ellis

  Stars, Moon, Long Ago

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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  Indira Gandhi

  Life, Friendship, Leadership

  "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders". The New York Times, October 20, 1971.

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• I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

  Mother Teresa

  Writing, Making A Difference, Charity

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• A hand fought best when it made a fist.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Fists, Made

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him

  Ai Yazawa

  Feet, Want, Forgotten

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• All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Thoughts of Power”, p.3, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• This life is not about me. It's about joining hands with Jesus to fulfill whatever tasks He sets before me and to share His love with all He brings my way.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jesus, Joining Hands, Tasks

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 21, 2016

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• One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

  E. V. Lucas

  Love, Dream, Adventure

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• Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.

  Charles Shackleford

  Funny, Basketball, Sports

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• If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

  George Lucas

  Girl, Sunset, Boys

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• The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Past, History, Cynical

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• Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

  John Wayne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Wayne's lost world" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand

  Kami Garcia

  Fate, Wheels, Turns

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• I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

  W. S. Merwin

  Emptiness

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• Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Heart

  George Washington, Thomas J. Fleming (1967). “Affectionately Yours, George Washington: A Self-portrait in Letters of Friendship”, New York : Norton

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• The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

  Learned Hand

  Country, Media, Political

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

  e. e. cummings

  Rain, Small Hands

  W (1931) "somewhere I have never travelled"

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• A hand cannot write on itself.

  Peter Greenaway

  Writing

  "The Pillow Book". Drama, 1996.

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• Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

  Groucho Marx

  Art, Water, Crackers

  "Fictional character:". "Animal Crackers", www.imdb.com. 1930.

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• The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.

  Stephen King

  Character, Dark, Night

  "Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.

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• Better never to have met you in my dream, than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

  Otomo no Yakamochi

  Love, Anniversary, Dream

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• I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

  Helen Keller

  Taken, Mean, Eye

  "Three Days to See". Book by Helen Keller, 1933.

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• you said you were going to kill rukia with your own hands...you make me sick...show me your bankai and I will crush it...I will make me beg for forgiveness on you knees...I will never let you say those words to Rukia again... ~Ichigo Kurosaki

  Tite Kubo

  Crush, Sick, Knees

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