Touched Quotes - Page 7

Let us recognize this one thing: burden is the secret of prayer. If a person does not feel within him burden to pray for a particular matter he can hardly succeed in prayer. In a prayer meeting some brothers and sisters may mention a great many subjects for prayer. But if you are not touched inwardly, you cannot pray.

Watchman Nee

Brother, Prayer, Secret

Watchman Nee (2009). “Let Us Pray”, p.49, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

Lady Bird Johnson

Garden, Childhood, Untamed

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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.

Italo Calvino

Morning, Night, Light

Italo Calvino (2012). “The Nonexistent Knight”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

Jean de la Bruyere

Greatness, Political, Politics

"Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

William Shakespeare

Greatness, Glory, Highest

1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

Louis Kronenberger

Civilization, Effort, Age

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Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charles Dudley Warner

Women, Imagination, Sentimental

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I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

Al McGuire

Basketball, Player, Students

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Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.

George Henry Lewes

Twilight, Science, Shadow

George Henry Lewes (1867). “The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte by George Henry Lewes: Ancient philosophy”, p.84

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And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and has also touched thousands of lives.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death, Real, Choices

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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

John Ruskin

Mother, Taken, Nurse

John Ruskin (1905). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

Camille Flammarion

Discovery, Sky, Leaving

Camille Flammarion (1914). “Astronomy”

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When someone is dancing madly in a blissful state, in ecstasy after meditation, he is creating vibrations around him. They may penetrate into anyone. They can become infectious; they do become infectious. This ecstasy can go to others also; this ecstasy can be felt. Others hearts will be touched by it. And if you can create ripples around you, vibrations, you have served the world, and there is no other way to serve it - you have served the divine, and there is no other way to serve it.

Rajneesh

Heart, Creating, Dancing

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Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God. Those who are fortunate enough to come in contact with a buddha`s silence will be transformed; they will know what creativity is. He has not done a thing and miracles have happened. He has not uttered a word and the message has been heard. He has not moved, but he has transformed you. He has not even touched you, and you are no longer the same.

Rajneesh

Creativity, Creating, Silence

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God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been there. Maybe even the poet does not know, but he has been touched by something from the beyond.

Rajneesh

Creativity, Signatures, Doe

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The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals, enzymes, and humors which may be analyzed. Its structure is characterized by neurons, pathways, and synapses which may be examined directly when they are properly magnified.

Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

Skulls, Brain, Neurons

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From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.

Louis Bourdaloue

Heart, Dry Up, Moments

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Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!

Edwin Arnold

Dream, Spiritual, Forever

Edwin Arnold (2015). “The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita: Discourse Between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being Under the Form of Krishna: One of the Great Religious Classics of All Time - Synthesis of the Brahmanical concept of Dharma, theistic bhakti, the yogic ideals of moksha, and Raja Yoga & Samkhya philosophy”, p.11, e-artnow

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It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.

Robert D. Hales

Spiritual, Father, Heart

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I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ...I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ...Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Life, Truth

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I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

Duncan Armstrong

Sports, Dream, Wall

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Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

Bea Arthur

Animal, Hands, Years

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A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.

Margaret Bourke-White

Photography, Magic, Golden

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If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

Rudyard Kipling

Wine, Aunt, Watches

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To me, he was the grand master of wine. He was a forceful Russian and a gentle person. The greats of wine all over the world have great affection and admiration for him. What a beautiful man he was and what a privilege to have been touched by him.

Margrit Mondavi

Beautiful, Wine, Men

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