If You KnewWhat if you knew you'd be the lastto touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater, tearing them, giving back the ragged stubs, you might take care to touch that palmbrush your fingertipsalong the lifeline's crease. When a man pulls his wheeled suitcasetoo slowly through the airport, whenthe car in front of me doesn't signal, when the clerk at the pharmacywon't say thank you, I don't rememberthey're going to die. A friend told me she'd been with her aunt. They'd just had lunch and the waiter, a young gay man with plum black eyes, joked as he served the coffee, kissedher aunt's powdered cheek when they left. Then they walked half a block and her auntdropped dead on the sidewalk. How close does the dragon's spumehave to come? How wide does the crackin heaven have to split? What would people look likeif we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time? . Ellen Bass
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
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Tahereh Mafi
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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Mother Teresa
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
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Dalai Lama Xiv
As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap...
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Pythagoras
I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
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Anne Rice
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