"What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?"

-- Pablo Neruda

#Hands Quotes #Touching Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Happiness needs one-upmanship.”
“Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not only those who suffer death for the sake of faith in Christ are martyrs; but also those who die because of their observance of His commandments.”
“Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful.”
“The religious way is the deep way, the way that sees what physical eyes alone fail to see, the intangibles of the heart of every phenomenon. The religious way is the way that touches universal relationships; that goes high, wide and deep, that expands the feelings of kinship.”
“I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.”
“Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.”
“On previous occasions when God incarnated on earth, the bliss of recognising Him in the incarnation was vouchsafed only after the physical embodiment had left the world, in spite of plenty of evidences of His Grace. But, ponder a moment on this Sathya Sai Manifestation; in this age of rampant materialism, aggressive disbelief and irreverence, what is it that brings to It the adoration of millions from all over the world? You will be convinced that the basic reason for this is the fact that this is the Supra-worldly Divinity in Human Form.”
“A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.”

Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.229, Macmillan

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