"We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences."

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Source : "Reality; The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument". The Irish Journal of Psychology, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1988.

Humberto Maturana

#Touching Quotes #Body Quotes #Smooth Quotes

“To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal and may you feel happy in your lives.Flutter as the butterflies do.”
“Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.”
“The cross is steady while the world is turning.”
“Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.”
“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.”
“The heart thinks of everything you can give, and the soul thinks of everything you are.”
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
“My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.”

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