Touching Quotes - Page 23

• We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: "Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack."

  James Keller

  Mom, Time, Prayer

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• It's exciting to think that something I'm involved in is touching so many people in so many cultures.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Thinking, People, Culture

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• A lot of times, as an actor, especially a TV or film actor, you don't get a lot of interaction, or you don't get the feeling you are actually touching someone, or someone actually cares about what you do.

  Christopher Judge

  Feelings, Actors, Care

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• I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

  Rachel Kushner

  Thinking, Want, Sun

  "Rachel Kushner’s Reno, L.a., And New York" by Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

  John Lennon

  Rock And Roll, Soul, Spirit

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• There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Memories, Home, Emotional

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• For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

  Howard Staunton

  Kings, Moving, Men

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• The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with chi, pure power. We don't see too many of them anymore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Buddhism

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• To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes and behavior of living beings.

  Manly Hall

  Book, Symbolism, Library

  "The Secret Teachings of All Ages". Book by Manly P. Hall, 1928.

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• Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Listening, Essentials, Draws

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• At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all.
  Our spiritual essence is not something that we create through meditation it's already there,
  deep within, behind all the barriers, patiently waiting for us to recognize it.

  Aaron Hoopes

  Spiritual, Essence, Meditation

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• The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into the mountains you would see a diffuse glow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Keys, Focus, Mountain

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• The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

  Hans Arp

  Men, Symbols, Extremes

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• Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Sight, Play

  William Cowper (1790). “Poems: by William Cowper, ... In two volumes. ...”, p.237

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• Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Skins, Why Not

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• The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Powerful, Impact, Circles

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Kandinsky Watercolours: Exhibition May 23-June 28, 1970, Art Gallery of Ontario”

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• Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

  Joan Miro

  Religious, Art, Hands

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• Even to the sage who's doing Sahaja Samadhi, the great guru, I'd say: "Hey buddy, you know, I like the robes and everything, but remember, you're only touching infinity. And if you claim to be doing more, I think you're pretty much in the senses and the body and the mind because infinity is endless."

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Thinking, Remember You

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• When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release the tension from our face as we smile. Others who run into us notice it, even strangers, and are likely to smile back. It is a wonderful chain reaction that we can initiate, touching the joy in anyone we encounter. Smiling is an ambassador of goodwill.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Running, Yoga

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• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

  Edward Abbey

  Technology, Eagles, Ravens

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.164, Macmillan

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• If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you. So many members of the lesbian and gay community feel they have had violence done to them by religious groups that it is very difficult to evangelize any members of our community. But we do evangelize.

  Troy Perry

  Religious, Gay, Years

  The Christian Century magazine, 1996.

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• Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

  George William Curtis

  Memories, Romantic Love, Romance

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• A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

  Edna Ferber

  Beautiful, Men, Tree

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• In one sense there is no death. The life of a soul on earth lasts beyond departure. You will always feel that life touching yours, that voice speaking to you. He/She lives on in your life and in the lives of all others that knew him/her.

  Angelo Patri

  Life, Death, Spiritual

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• It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Cutting, Humanity, Strange

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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