Let not thy left hand know what hy right hand is doing~Matthew VI:3

There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand~Shakespeare, Henry IV (1591).

Cold hand, warm heart.~German proverb.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.~Ambrose Bierce. (Ambrose Gwinett Bierce 1842-1914).

While your friend holds you affectionately by both hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.~Ambrose Bierce. (Ambrose Gwinett Bierce 1842-1914).

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.~Red Buttons (1919- ), U.S. comedian.

Boys and girls may sit together, but they all know the rules. I must be able to see both heads, and all hands, at all times.~Melody Clarke. Texas school bus driver whose two-hour route is the longest in the United States.

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.~Mario Cuomo (1932- ). U.S. politician, and governor of New York (1979-83), speaking of his father, in an address to the Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1984.

Licence my roving hands, and let them go,/ Before, behind, between, above, below.~John Donne (1572-1631). English metaphysical poet and divine. Elegies. 'Love's Progress'.

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We don't have to be "successful," only valuable. We don't have to make money, only a difference, and particularly in the lives society counts least and puts last.~William Sloane Coffin

Hands are the heart's landscape.
~ Pope John Paul II (1920-)

The sweetest flowers in all the world— A baby's hands.
~ Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909) English poet & critic from Etude réalistique

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
~ Carl Jung (1875-1961

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Funny thing about human nature. When we ain't feeling to good ourselves, we always want to read about somebody that is worse off than we are. Will Rogers

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
~Indira Gandhi

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
~Dorothee Solle

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
~Kahlil Gibran

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart.
~Hellen Keller

.take care,
~*sunemstar*~.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
~ Mark Twain

That's a beautiful quote, sunemstar! Helen Keller was incredibly perceptive.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
- André Gide (1869–1951), French author.

His hands make money outside; his spouse saves money at home.
- Chinese Proverb


--------Sanya--------
Stella Splendens
December 22, 1985-March 27, 2003
Rest In Peace
..lost time is gone forever

I read this beautiful passage recently, and wanted to share...

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Your Hands
by Carrie Hart.


See your hand. See how it stretches out to another in greeting and friendship, a symbol of openness, integrity and welcome. See how it seals a pledge, a promise of truth and loyalty. See how it soothes in comfort, compassion and love. See how it excites passion. See how it heals with its touch.

See hands of different colors, different sizes, different ages. See them all reaching across and clasping each other in peace and love. See them dance and speak. See hands held between lovers as they walk or stretched across the table in deep conversation.

See hands drawing beauty, painting colors. See hands forming the clay and freeing the statue within the marble. See hands writing words of deep wisdom, joy and peace. See the hand that writes a love letter and wipes away a tear. See the aging hand writing a will. See the hand of power signing an alliance.

See the hand as it presents a rose to another. See the hands that hold the newborn infant, its own hands like little flowers of promise. See calloused hands with nail and hammer, building a home.

Today, celebrate your hands. Feel the energy of your body moving into your hands. Feel how your heart, with all of its love, can flow into your hands. Feel how your true integrity flows there easily.

Today, see your own hands for the wonders that they are, whether they are young and fresh as springtime or covered with the marks of wisdom and experience. See them for the wonders that they are and take this pledge: that your hands shall be filled with love and healing, truth and loyalty, and that you shall use them to build a world of peace and beauty.

Let your deep truth resonate within you, shining out more brightly than any other light, and then let this light fill your hands, so that the actions you perform, the pledges you make, the love you express, the art you create, shall all flow directly from your heart and soul, into your hands and out into the world.

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle.
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.