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Quotes About Embrace

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Why do I thrash about, why do I fuss inside this narrow, limited frame, when life, the whole of life, with all its joys, is open to me?
~ Leo Tolstoy
Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Anna Mikhaylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were kindhearted, and because they - friends from childhood - had to think about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... But those tears were pleasant to them both.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to him who suffers, and try to help him.
~ Leo Tolstoy
To accept the dignity of another person is an axiom. It has nothing to do with subduing, supporting, or giving charity to other people.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Tears, like bitter rivers, streamed down his dried-up cheeks, as he stood swaying in his brother's arms.
~ Leon Garfield
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
~ Leonard Bernstein
Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms
~ Leonard Cohen
When he puts his mouth against her shoulder she is uncertain whether her shoulder has given or received the kiss. All her flesh is like a mouth.
~ Leonard Cohen
You came to me this morning And you handled me like meat You'd have to be a man to know How good that feels, how sweet
~ Leonard Cohen
BODY OF LONELINESS She entered my foot with her foot and she entered my waist with her snow. She entered my heart saying, "Yes, that's right." And so the Body of Loneliness was covered from without, and from within the Body of Loneliness was embraced. Now every time I try to draw a breath she whispers to my breathlessness, "Yes, my love, that's right, that's right.
~ Leonard Cohen
every heart, every heart to love will come but like a refugee.
~ Leonard Cohen
My mirror twin, my next of kin Id know you in my sleep And who but you would take me in A thousand kisses deep
~ Leonard Cohen
Blessed are you, embrace of the falling, foundation of the light, master of the human accident.
~ Leonard Cohen
Torrance uses the analogy of an embrace. When we hug someone, there is a double movement. We open our arms and in so doing give ourselves to the beloved. But in the embrace we also draw that person close to us...One hand, Christ, opens the relationship, the other hand, the Holy Spirit draws us into that relationship with the Father.
~ Leonard J. Vander Zee
The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and bloodstream.
~ Leonora Carrington
Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and bloodstream. I am no beauty, no mirror is necessary to assure me of this absolute fact. Nevertheless I have a death grip on this haggard frame as if it were the limpid body of Venus herself.
~ Leonora Carrington
Cu o cutezan?? nebun?, de parc? încerca s?-ÅŸi recapete astfel libertatea, îÅŸi l?s? trupul s? se topeasc? în al lui ÅŸi buzele lor se unir? într-un s?rut atât de intens, încât o l?s? f?r? aer.
~ Lesley Downer
When love comes, it comes indiscriminately.
~ Lesley Lokko
I close my eyes and melt in its embrace, basking in the sweetest balm of forgiveness: that for which one need not even ask.
~ Leslie Cannold
Don't ever let one moment take anything away from another.
~ Leslie Miklosy