Barefoot Quotes

• You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

  Michael Franti

  Different, Firsts, Steps

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• I was born to catch dragons in their dens
  And pick flowers
  To tell tales and laugh away the morning
  To drift and dream like a lazy stream
  And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

  James Kavanaugh

  Dream, Morning, Flower

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• Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Feels

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• And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

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• A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

  Yanni

  Beach, Life Is Good, Simple

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• In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Beautiful, Morning

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• But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

  Billy Collins

  Light, Offering, Bird

  Billy Collins (2012). “Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

  Amy Grant

  Running, Children, Philosophy

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• I just kick off my shoes, walk around barefoot, I don't care if my feet get dirty.

  Christina Aguilera

  Dirty, Shoes, Feet

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• Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing barefoot on a smooth glacial rock by the sea at sunset, and sensing the warmth of the sun-heated stone through one's soles, is an extraordinarily healing experience, making one part of the eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earth.

  Juhani Pallasmaa

  Healing, Sunset, Rocks

  Juhani Pallasmaa (2012). “The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

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• When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you.

  John Fox

  Mom, Home, Land

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• go barefoot
  and be warm
  all the time
  not only when you go to bed
  and sleep

  Nikki Giovanni

  Summer, Sleep, Bed

  Nikki Giovanni, “KnoXVILLe Tennessee”

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• Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Reading, Shoes

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

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• Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

  John Updike

  Beauty, Naked, Revolutionary

  John Updike (2013). “Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism”, p.77, Random House

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• You may like walking barefoot, but keep your shoes with you; you may need it when the ground changes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Shoes, Needs, Walking Barefoot

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• Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.

  George Herbert

  Plant

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.318

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• He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thorns, Caution, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.22, Nayika Publishing

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• To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't.

  Michael Josephson

  Men, Feet, New Shoes

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• The best treatment for feet encased in shoes all day is to go barefoot. One-fifth of the world's population never wears shoes - ever! But when people who usually go barefoot usually wear shoes, their feet begin to suffer. As often as possible, walk barefoot on the beach, in your yard, or at least around the house. Walking in the grass or sand massages your feet, strengthens your muscles and feels very relaxing...If you can cut back on wearing shoes by 30 percent, you will save wear and tear on your feet and extend the life of your shoes.

  Stephanie Tourles

  Beach, Cutting, Journey

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• I long for You so much
  I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks
  That are high in the mountains
  That I know are years old.
  I long for You so much
  I have even begun to travel
  Where I have never been before.

  Hafez

  Broken Heart, Years, Long

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• Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever?

  Mary Oliver

  Flower, Humble, Garden

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.32, Beacon Press

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• Barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody loves you, and when you make somebody else happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Morning, Love You

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• Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Girl, Doe, Young

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• The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the glass or stones that studded her way. She spoke to the dead whenever they visited her. She tried to be kind, but they realised that they no longer had anything in common with her, and she realised it, too. So they went their separate ways.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Heart, Cutting

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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