Alan Watts Quotes, Hands Quotes, Water Quotes

The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

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A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Hands Quotes , Length Quotes

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Hands Quotes , Sorrow Quotes

All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

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Tags : Lou Holtz Quotes , Hands Quotes , Desire Quotes

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Hands Quotes , Evil Quotes

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Memorable Quotes , Hands Quotes

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Men Quotes , Hands Quotes

Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Hands Quotes

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Hands Quotes , Skills Quotes

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Men Quotes , Hands Quotes

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

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Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

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If you are holding hands with others, you can't hold a gun!

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Tags : Alan Rufus Quotes , Gun Quotes , Hands Quotes

Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Hands Quotes

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Men Quotes , Hands Quotes

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Hands Quotes , Weather Quotes

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Hands Quotes , Looks Quotes

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Hands Quotes , World Quotes

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Time Quotes , Hands Quotes

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Hands Quotes , People Quotes