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• Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.

  Rajneesh

  Smell, Texture, Flavor

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• Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Depression, Soul, Bipolar

  Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

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• As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.

  Pliny the Elder

  Names, Peaches, Firsts

  "Natural History". Book by Pliny the Elder, Book XV, Chapter 13. Holland's translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591,

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• The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

  Joseph Addison

  Perfection, Soul, Lines

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.52

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• how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

  e. e. cummings

  Breathing, Doubt, Hearing

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.167, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

  Phillips Brooks

  Men, Christ, Absence

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

  Willa Cather

  Hate, Wings, Littles

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Disappointment, Giving, Bereavement

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Prayers in the Congregation”, p.88

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• New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.

  Susanna Moore

  New York, Party, Feet

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• I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Crazy, Fishing, Asking

  N.Y. Times, 23 May 1927

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• I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.

  May Sarton

  Men, Thinking, Nerves

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• (with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is, I tell myself, someone in the city nearby whose one contact today with unreconstructed nature will be to step into a diminutive pile of poodle excrement

  Russell Chatham

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blast of adversity.

  Washington Irving

  Husband, Adversity, Wife

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.231

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• Touching souls... The best feeling in the world.

  Renzo Gracie

  Mma, Soul, Feelings

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• Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.

  Mary Oliver

  Art, Mean, Poetry

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The tears that fall from the eyes of a truthful Believer, out of the fear of the Lord, and, then, roll down his face, however little they are, even of the size of a fly [i.e. just one drop], shall prevent the Fire of Hell from touching his face.

  Ibn Majah

  Fall, Eye, Fire

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• I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.

  Lev L. Spiro

  Children, Years, Trying

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• A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological--indeed spiritual--dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.

  Melvin Konner

  Spiritual, Healing, Differences

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• Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.

  Jenny Downham

  Glasses, World, Empty

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• Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Imagination, Waste, Common

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (4), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do that, you might get something amazing.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Reading, Book, Heart

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• Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

  Quentin Crisp

  Men, Excitement, Seeing

  "The Naked Civil Servant". The Naked Civil Servant, Chapter 19, 1968.

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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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• 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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• 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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