“Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love.” NeedsHumansPersonsHandsSexDifficultHuman BeingsPowerfulExistenceComfortSafetyImpactTouchedAssociatesUnderestimateInfantPrimalHuman Hands Book:Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files
“It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.” HumansHappensHumanityHuman BeingsCuttingStrangeDignityContactTensionTouchedTouchingTendernessWholenessMisunderstandingStrange ThingsCutting Off Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews
“We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.” HumansHeartMayHas BeensRoomsDivineCharityTouchedSubstitutesDivine LoveGodliness Book:Lectures and Sermons Source: Lectures and Sermons