Touching Quotes - Page 25

• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

  Carl Schurz

  Love, Change, Sports

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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• The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspiring, Romantic

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.127, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest.

  Joel Salatin

  Philosophy, Heart, Passion

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• But this is touching, Severus,” said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?” “For him?” shouted Snape. “Expecto Patronum!” From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. “After all this time?” “Always,” said Snape.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Boys, Office

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• i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothing--human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Eye, Gay

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Art, Bored, Mystery

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• Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

  Stephen Levine

  Memories, Difficult, Tension

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• I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Past, Hard Times, Hands

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hands, Making Love, Important

  "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 1, 2005.

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• I didn’t care about anything except her and the way touching her drove me wild, even as her calm and steady presence soothed the storms that raged within me.

  Richelle Mead

  Love, Caring, Storm

  FaceBook post by Richelle Mead from Apr 22, 2013

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• Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Holiday, Years

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.345

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• Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

  John Philip Sousa

  Music, Writing, Heart

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• In my 35 years in business I have always trusted my emotions. I have always believed that by touching emotion you get the best people to work with you, the best clients to inspire you, the best partners and most devoted customers.

  Kevin Roberts

  Inspirational, Business, Believe

  Kevin Roberts (2005). “Lovemarks: the future beyond brands”, p.38, powerHouse Books

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• Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

  Uta Hagen

  Reality, Self, Vivid Imagination

  Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or the women who wake up early to make tortillas in refugee camps. They all weep for their children, and in their compassionate tears arises the political action that changes the world. The mothers show us that it is the experience of touching the pain of others that is the key to change.

  Jim Wallis

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.

  A. B. Simpson

  Prayer, Children, Father

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• The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Artist, Keys, Hands

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• The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Light, Essence, Joy

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• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Strong, Real, Recovery

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.133, Shambhala Publications

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• ...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Kindness, Heart

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• The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility... Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile.

  Pope Paul VI

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1976*). “On evangelization in the modern world”

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• Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

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• Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.

  Emma Roberts

  Kids, Faces, Wells

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• Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Sex, Hands

  Song: Sweet Caroline

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• For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, People, Giving

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