empathetic touch Quotes

To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.

When I talk to people and I get animated, I touch them and am very physically involved. It's actually been really hard, but it's an acting challenge.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.

Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.

We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.