Touched Quotes

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  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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• I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.

  Mike Huckabee

  Christian, Hunger Poverty, Issues

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• Sometimes you need to be touched to know you're still alive.

  Cathie Pelletier

  Needs, Alive, Sometimes

  Cathie Pelletier (2014). “Beaming Sonny Home: A Novel”, p.141, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

  George Eliot

  Past, Daylight, Rubbish

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.186

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• You can work on a movie for years, and you won't know until you show it to an audience for the first time if it makes any sense to them at all, if they're touched, if they find it funny, so it's endlessly exciting, because failure is just right there all the time, and your chances of success don't rise that much based on the fact that you succeeded last time.

  Judd Apatow

  Years, Firsts, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we do for others, we can't help but be touched by the love and generosity we thought we were giving away.

  Kimberly Kirberger

  Generosity, Giving, Helping

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• Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she was to see her face take on that peaceful expression of one who is resting in bed. If I touched her, I had the impression that all the blood in her veins was turning to honey.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Passion, Expression, Blood

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• The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Love, Heartbreak, Positivity

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• In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

  Diane Ackerman

  People, Touching, Age

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• Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.

  Tom Vilsack

  Hands, Risk, Three

  "Vilsack offered to resign over flap" by Roger Simon, www.politico.com. August 25, 2010.

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• I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

  T. D. Jakes

  Pain, People, My Own

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• I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

  Mitch Albom

  Believe, Heart, Mind

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• The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.

  Jon Gordon

  Names, Joy, Legacy

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

  Emily Dickinson

  Morning, Spring, Would Be

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.146, First Avenue Editions

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• The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I'd been touched by an angel.

  Selena Gomez

  Angel, Fans, Letters

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• We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Known

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life should be touched, not strangled.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Letting Go, Should

  "Farewell Summer". Book by Ray Bradbury, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2006.

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• The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.

  Pepe Romero

  Inspirational, Way, Pure

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• There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

  Ouida

  Heart, Sadness, Chords

  Ouida (1900). “Signa: A Story”

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• When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Artist

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• Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Names, Imagination

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• That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I stopped.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Mother, Children, Inspiration

  Gail Carson Levine (2012). “Ella Enchanted”, p.3, Harper Collins

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