Touching Quotes

“Just as we use speech and gestures to communicate, so we use touch. Words can say, ‘I love you’, but touch can also say how and how much, and, at the same time, ‘I respect you’, ‘I need you’, and ‘thank you’. For a long time, scientists somehow thought that touch served merely to emphasize a verbal message. But now it is clear even to them that touch can be the message, and that it can be more nuanced and sophisticated than either speech or gestures, and more economical to boot. What’s more, touch is a two-way street; and a person’s reaction to our touch can tell us much more than their words ever could. Finally, while words can lie, or be taken for granted, primal touch is difficult to either ignore or discount.”

“We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!”

“If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.”

“A touch may not be always be a love but love is always a touch!”

“It is nice to touch, it is nice to be touched, but it is so much nicer to touch someone's heart.”

“When you touch a man’s body, he will enjoy the moment; when you touch a man’s heart, he will remember it forever.”

“Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I’m touching, so I’d better start paying attention to what I’m touching.”

“Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart!”

“Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people half-way. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive, you have to be touching, inspiring and bring the fire of your aliveness to the union of your companionship.”