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Touching Quotes (page 54)

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a... Henri Nouwen
Rabindranath Tagore quote: "Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss..."
Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss hissight whose breath touches my sleep? Rabindranath Tagore
But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma ... and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes. John Adams
And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity. Thomas Hardy
I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears. Barbara Kingsolver
Pablo Neruda quote: "I want to see thirst. In the syllables, Touch fire. In the..."
I want to see thirst. In the syllables, Touch fire. In the sound; Feel through the dark. For the scream. Pablo Neruda
This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand. Olive Schreiner
When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were the shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so that they would never hurt anybody ever again. Kurt Vonnegut
I sighed. "Show me the damn ring, Edward."He shook his head. "No."I studied his expression for a long minute."Please?" I asked quietly, experimenting with my newly discovered weapon. I touched his face lightly with the tips of my fingers. "Please can I see it?"His eyes narrowed. "You are the most dangerous creature I have ever met," he muttered. But he got up and moved with unconscious grace to kneel next to the small bedside table. Stephenie Meyer
But who can say why two people become a couple, that small principality of mutual protection and regard? Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. Diane Ackerman
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."
But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it. F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief. Anton Chekhov
... it is necessary to reteach a thing its lovliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch that it is lovelyuntil it flowers again from within, of self-blessing...-Galway Kinnell Galway Kinnell
The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence. George MacDonald
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate. This gives to the typically Christian pleasure in this earth a strange touch of lightness that is almost frivolity. Nature was a solemn mother to the worshipers of Isis and Cybele. Nature was a solemn mother to Wordsworth or to Emerson. But Nature is not solemn to... Gilbert K. Chesterton

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