Touched Quotes - Page 14

• Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Eye, Moon, Hands

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.124, New Directions Publishing

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• I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Order, Small Steps

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.17, BookBaby

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• If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Literature, Moments, Obscure

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.9, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Deceit, Creation, Lord

  Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.335, Aeterna Press

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• Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; over which swept all the storms of fate, ambition and revenge; upon which fell the gloom and darkness of despair and death and all the sunlight of content and love, and within which was the inverted sky lit with the eternal stars -- an intellectual ocean -- toward which all rivers ran, and from which now the isles and continents of thought receive their dew and rain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Revenge, Rain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.616, Library of Alexandria

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• To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.

  Stephen Levine

  Heal

  "To Heal Is to Touch With Love" by Bil Hitchcock, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

  Virginia Satir

  Love, Believe, Heard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act.

  Tobias Wolff

  Art, Writing, Optimistic

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• To come into camp and have my defensive coordinator say you won't be touched, I feel like a kid all over again.

  Ray Lewis

  Kids, Camps, Feels

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• As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.

  Charles Duhigg

  People, Stronger, Willpower

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• Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

  Kristina McMorris

  Memories, Heart, People

  Kristina Mcmorris (2013). “The Pieces We Keep”, p.413, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

  J.R. Miller

  Heart, Hands, Sorrow

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• We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.

  Takashi Murakami

  Art, Want, Moments

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• There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.

  Kay Hooper

  Self, Hatred, Mind

  Kay Hooper (2010). “Stealing Shadows: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel”, p.31, Bantam

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• It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Cutting, Men

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.

  Gregory Harrison

  Couple, Angel, Interesting

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• I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving, Forever, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 31: 1 February 1799 to 31 May 1800”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished - and all of us will some day meet it face to face.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, May, Faces

  Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”

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• There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

  John Henry Newman

  Struggle, Passion, Sky

  John Henry Newman, Albert Redcliffe (2002). “Selected Writings to 1845”, p.87, Taylor & Francis

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• It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008.

  Greg Egan

  June, Airports, Car

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• When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.

  Myles Munroe

  Desire, Enzymes, Body

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• I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Lips, I Can

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• I might have been tempted to hit him square in the jaw had he not taken me by the shoulders and pinned me against the wall. There was hardly any space left between us, just a thin boundary of air, but Patch managed to eliminate it. "Let's be honest, Nora. You've got it bad for me." His eyes held a lot of depth. "And I've got it bad for you." He leaned into me and put his mouth on mine. A lot of him was on me, actually. We touched base at several strategetic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Wall, Taken, Eye

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your life forever—you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you’ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Home, Loss

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• I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled myself closer to him until my lips touched his.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Arms, Lips, Necks

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