Touching Quotes

• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

  Aaron Siskind

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

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• Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 25, 2015

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• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Feelings, Way

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• Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

  Torquato Tasso

  Love, Romantic, Heart

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• If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

  Martha Beck

  Memories, Caring, Attention

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.

  Louise Hay

  Life, Motivational, Gratitude

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 23, 2011

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• Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

  Gina Barreca

  Kissing, Laughing, Hug

  Gina Barreca (2013). “They Used to Call Me Snow White ... But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor”, p.105, UPNE

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• As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beauty, Spiritual, Appreciation

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 27, 2016

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• It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate.
  Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

  Frederick Leboyer

  Children, Communication, Hands

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• Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Grows

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• The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cute, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, University of Georgia Press

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• When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.

  George Washington Carver

  Flower, Years, Long

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• The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The flower feeds its body while for me the colours and shapes and scents of flowers feed my heart. But how arrogant of me to assume that the butterfly does not feel its miniscule heart also soar for no reason other than touching and being touched by beauty!

  Densey Clyne

  Beauty, Flower, Butterfly

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.

  Wallace Stegner

  Loyalty, Lying, Hands

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• Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.

  Norman Lear

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• As a human sentiment, it's touching to behold.

  James Crawford

  Sentiments, Humans

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• I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

  Jerry Stiller

  Ideas, Audience

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

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• ...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Philosophical, Together, Lips

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 38

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• Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and I'm thinking, Is this really worth it? Or am I doing this only because my mother taught me never to give up? Then you realize, no, even if it doesn't come back to you, you are touching people.

  Micah Lexier

  Mother, Morning, Giving Up

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2013.

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• The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

  Padma Lakshmi

  Beautiful, Body, Plates

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• It goes like this: teaching is touching life

  Jaime Escalante

  Teaching

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• As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.

  Protagoras

  Knowing, Obscurity, Human Life

  "Sallustius: Concerning the Gods and the Universe". Book by Sallustius,

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• This world is so wonderful, so Unthinkable and Ungraspable.
  What are we touching right here and now?

  Soen Nakagawa

  World, Wonderful, Here And Now

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• It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

  Robert Frost

  Reading, Taken, Writing

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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