12 INSPIRING QUOTES ON THE HANDS AND TOUCH

• "This now is it. This. Your deepest need and desire is satisfied by the moment's energy here in your hand.." – Rumi

• “With a stroke of my hand I open the dawn of a new world.” - Carlos Bulosan

• “Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.”~ William Shakespeare

• “Hands are the heart’s landscape.”  - Pope John Paul II

• "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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." -  Henri Nouwen

• We are all connected. When you touch one thing, you are touching everything. Whatever we do has an effect on others. Therefore, we must learn to live mindfully to touch the peace inside each of us.
  -  Thich Nhat Hanh

• Writing by hand on paper is becoming a revolutionary act. Doing things with warm hand to warm hand, face to face, without photographing them, posting them, is becoming a revolutionary act. Those two original digital devices you have at the end of your forearms are the means of resistance.
  -  Lynda Barry

• Turns out, working with your hands can make you feel better. No surprise to those of us who like create in the kitchen, workshop, garden, or on paper. It's like a mantra for your hands. And maybe there's a link here with handwriting in a journal as opposed to typing in one...- Linda DiBella

• "Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens, light." ~ St. Francis of Assisi   

• “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” ~  Leonardo da Vinci

• “Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in.” - Carl Jung

• “Hands make the world each day.” - Pablo Neruda