Power of Hands

Rome, Italy

Hands are the tools of tools.
-Aristotle

Banteay Srei, Angkor, Cambodia 

 Our hands often reveal what we really think but do not say.
They can show a range of feelings and emotions from confusion and frustration
to joy, understanding, love, and compassion. 

Laughing Club, Mumbai, India

Vietnam

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us,
we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions,or cures, have chosen rather
to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Sicily

Faisabad, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

India 

 Hands calm us, feed us, and scratch our backs.  They intimidate, bless, encourage, and stop us.  They soothe and caress.
They draw our attention to the good and the bad, often suggesting exuberance or fear.

- Charles Flowers introduction to Elliott Erwitt’s Handbook

Honduras 

Hong Kong, China 

 Al Ahmadi, Kuwait

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
-Sophocles

 Kham, Tibet

 Bangkok,Thailand

 

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as
beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.
- Rumi ( 1207 – 1273)

Dublin, Ireland

 

Mandalay, Burma/Myanmar

 

Kabul, Afghanistan

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and
let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa

Helsinki, Finland

Heart Surgery, Brazil 

Hands

Hands have saved lives and taken them just as easily.
They create the saviors of life as well as the purveyors of death.
Creating and destroying with a single move a finger can move mountains or search the unknown heavens.

Hands live to caress and love.
Hands live to fight and die.
Forever living hands, forever exploring hands.
- Bruce Alan Humphrey

 Kuwait