Palms Quotes

• If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Hands, Birth Defects

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• Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

  Sarah Ruhl

  Stars, Lying, Sadness

  Sarah Ruhl (2006). “The Clean House and Other Plays”

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  To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower,
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
  And eternity in an hour.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Sunday, Tree, Crosses

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• Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere.

  Katie Cleary

  Oil, Atmosphere, Climate

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• Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says there are no outsiders - black, white, yellow, short, tall, young, old, rich, poor, gay, lesbian, straight - everyone. All belong. And God says, I have only you to help me realize my dream. Help me.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dream, Gay, Hands

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• When Christ entered into Jerusalem the people spread garments in the way: when He enters into our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not only lay it under Christ's feet but even trample upon it ourselves.

  Augustus Toplady

  Heart, Sunday, Feet

  Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.263

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• Lord, we lift up your name. With hearts full of praise; Be exalted, O Lord my God! Hosanna in the highest!

  Carl Tuttle

  Heart, Sunday, Names

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• We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Wisdom, Easter

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• There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living.

  Elmore Leonard

  Ocean, Views, Cities

  "We’re Not in New York Anymore" by Ian Crouch, www.newyorker.com. January 8, 2014.

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• God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

  Billy Graham

  Love, Christian, Easter

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2015

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• No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  No Cross, No Crown (1669) See Proverbs 212

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• And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Hands, Littles, Cameras

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Privacy settings engaged". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• Time has laid his hand
  Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it,
  But as a harper lays his open palm
  Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Heart, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.203

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• Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Stress, Ocean

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.34, Penguin

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• About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hands, Astrology, People

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• Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Hands, Fists, Performing

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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• My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Hands, Cowardice

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 5, sc. 3

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• Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

  Woody Allen

  Movie, Sex, Humorous

  Annie Hall (motion picture) (1977). Cowritten with Marshall Brickman.

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• We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hands, Joy, Needs

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.178, A&C Black

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• An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

  Laurence Sterne

  Hands, Actors, Able

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• Great is the man who can overcome the
  world, but greater still is the man who can
  overcome himself, for he will have the world
  spinning on the palm of his hand.

  Confucius

  Men, Hands, Overcoming

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• The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

  Laini Taylor

  Hands, Stones, Smooth

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.90, Hachette UK

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