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“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.

Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.

Their language has been lost.

But not the gestures.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that��, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“ACTS OF LOVE

Love is not a word
Or a thought.
It is the name for
An action
That breathes from its light.
What do you
DO
In Love's name?
And is it only done
Outside
In the light?
Or with an inner
Flame
Illuminating
Love's
TRUE
Name?

I want to know.

Are your actions
Done by remote
Or with
SOUL?
And when you say
You love someone,
Does a light go off
Inside at all?

What have
YOU
Done
In the
Name of
LOVE?

Because,
Really,
I want to know.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Note: The most relevant gestures we miss from our everyday interactions aren't the most grandiose. The subtle little here and there gestures are sometimes of profound depth than the grandiose we expect or see.”
― Ufuoma Apoki

“Thinking of emoji as gestures helps put things into perspective if we're tempted to start thinking, "If words were good enough for Shakespeare, why aren't they good enough for us?" We can pause and realize that plain words weren't actually good enough for Shakespeare. A lot of what Shakespeare wrote was plays, designed not to be read on a page, but to be performed by people. How many of us have struggled through reading Shakespeare as a disembodied script in school, only to see him come to life in a well-acted production?”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“Every small, kind gesture we make affects the lives of others positively”
― Margo Vader, Take A Little Soul Time

“В характера си тя имаше чисти страни, чисти като синьото цвете, останали й от времето, когато пееше по улиците. Като гледаше продавачките на цветя край метрото, тя ми казваше тогава:
- Вярваш ли, че един ден някой мъж ще ми поднесе малко букетче, което ще купи, минавайки оттук?
След това тя получаваше толкова цветя, че можеше да ги препродава. Беше удовлетворена, цветята свидетелстваха за нейния успех, но...
- Ти не можеш ме убеди - умуваше тя, - че тия огромни букети се поднасят от сърце, много мангизи се плащат за тях. А за едно букетче от теменужки човек трябва да си помисли, трябва да бръкне в джоба си и после да ти го даде, без да се страхува, че ще изглежда смешен. Това е жест...”
― Simone Berteaut

“Nothing is more repugnant to the human mind in an age of equality than the idea of subjection to forms.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“Sahiplenme için özellikle dokunmayı kullanırız. Bir düğün salonuna girerken, sevgilimize, eşimize sarılır veya dokunuruz. Bu dokunuşu “Bu benim ona göre!�� anlamında kullanırız. Genelde hanımlar bu mesajı etrafa vermede bizden daha kibar oldukları için, bizim yaptığımız gibi kollarıyla bir boğma harekâtına girmek yerine, üzerinizden olmayan kepekleri silkelerler ya da ceketinizden hayali saçlar toplarlar. Zaten sıkı olan kravatınızı dilinizi dışarı çıkaracak şekilde sıkarlar. Bu, diğer dişilere “Bu adam benim, bulana kadar canım çıktı, kimse yanaşmasın�� mesajını verir. Siz saf saf “Dün kafa üstü düştüm, dönüp bakmadı. Şimdi kravatımı düzeltiyor, değerimi anladı. Rabbime şükürler olsun!�� diye düşünürken, o etrafa gerekli mesajı vermektedir.”
― Ahmet Şerif İzgören, Dikkat Vücudunuz Konuşuyor

“Every day the material world mistreats me. My sensibility is like a flame in the wind. I walk down the street and I see in the faces of the passers-by, not their real expressions, but the expressions they would wear if they knew about my life and how I am, if the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul were made transparent in my gestures and in my face. In the eyes that avoid mine I suspect a mockery I find only natural, aimed at the inelegant exception I represent in a world that takes pleasure in things and in activity and, in the depths of these passing physiognomies, I imagine and interpose an awareness of the timid nature of my life that sparks off guffaws of laughter. After thinking this, I try in vain to convince myself that I alone am the source of this idea of other people's mockery and mild opprobrium. But once objectified in others, I can no longer reclaim the image of myself as a figure of fun. I feel myself grow suddenly vague and hesitant in a hothouse rife with ridicule and animosity. From the depths of their soul, everyone points a finger at me. Everyone who passes stones me with merry insolence. I walk amongst enemy ghosts that my sick imagination has conjured up and planted inside real people. Everything jabs and jeers at me. And sometimes, in the middle of the road - unobserved, after all - I stop and hesitate, seeking a sudden new dimension, a door onto the interior of space, onto the other side of space, where without delay I might flee my awareness of other people, my too objective intuition of the reality of other people's living souls.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness instead of patience, fastness instead of speed, honestness instead of honesty. With these choices, many words can be indicated, and pointing or gesticulating usually works.”
― Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories

“Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.”
― Timothy Snyder (author), On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Tell people who you are without saying a word.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“I realized that such small gestures - the way his mother had made me a cup of tea after our meal without asking, remembering that I didn't take sugar, the way Laura had placed two little bisquits on the saucer when she brought me coffee in the salon - such things could mean so much.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Psychology of small things rules.”
― Stefan Fatsis, A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL

“Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.”
― Machado de Assis

“The Pledge of Allegiance (1892) was the origin of the raised arm salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis). The Pledge was written by Francis Bellamy, cousin to Edward Bellamy (the author), and both were self-proclaimed national socialists in the United States. The original Pledge began with a military salute that was then extended out toward the flag. In practice, the second gesture was performed palm down. The gesture was not an ancient Roman salute. All of these are discoveries of the symbologist Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets").”
― John Thomas Nall, GOD SAVE THE SOUTH: And a Treasure Chest of Forbidden Information

“It's not about grand gestures.It's not about accolades.It's not about the world.It's about you.”
― Kaleb Kilton

“Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.”
― Machado de Assis, O Alienista

“I feel like people are always speaking with their eyes, their bodies, their hands, gestures, intonation, and their words - only mostly all we hear are the words. And the words get in the way. So if we just spoke with our eyes we might get closer to the truth.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, A Tangle of Gold

“There are many thoughts and feelings, but only a few gestures; and the mask has only half a dozen grimaces to express a thousand meanings”
― Aldous Huxley

“Grant gave her the thumbs up signal. It had become a common communications gesture for the group, especially when words could not be used for whatever reason.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“They made love through their eyes, while their gestures conveyed otherwise!”��”
― Ramana Pemmaraju

“It is stated that the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) was taken up into heaven (while he was still alive) and saw angels dwelling on various heavenly levels performing specific movements. This should be a profound sign of the spiritual significance and importance of the body and its motions. It is one indication of the sacredness of the body and the truly profound meaning of certain motions and gestures of that body.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“If you do something nice, do it quietly.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Both the boys noticed that Mr. Smith was twisting a crested gold ring on his finger. "Looks like a school emblem," Frank thought, then suddenly realized what the man was telling him. "He's from SKOOL!" Joe got the message at the same time and threw a quick glance at his brother. Dell smiled. "I felt sure you would understand. It is safer if some things are not said aloud. Mr. Smith and I work together." So Dell was also a member of SKOOL, working under the guise of security officer for Great Circle Airways!”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Secret Agent on Flight 101