Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“To know if I'm alone in my longing, a lighthouse signaling to an empty sea.” — Colleen Oakley Copy Share Image
When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first. — French Proverb Copy Share Image
“As much longing there is for the worldly pleasure of five senses, that much less is the spiritual development.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Every time I try to move on with my life, memories of you keep haunting me. Since you've already forgiven me! What… — Cristina Orante Copy Share Image
How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“But each morning, when Eva wakes, she knows exactly who he is, and the knowledge of it leaves her with a faint,… — Laura Barnett Copy Share Image
For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by… — Thaddeus Norris Copy Share Image
Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance,… — Jamie Ford Copy Share Image
What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Todo te lo tragaste, como la lejania, como el mar, como el tiempo... Ese fue mi destino y en el viajo mi… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“One soft humid early spring morning driving a winding road across Mount Tamalpais, the 2,500-foot mountain just north of the Golden Gate… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I will always be the other woman. I disappear for a time like the moon in daylight, then rise at night all… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
“He gave my hair a final, gentle tug and turned away. I watched him go, Hunger and longing and that strange squirmy… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“For I knew already that something had taken me from me, and had replaced it with a desperate longing for a time… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
You have no idea how hard it is to force myself to stop thinking about you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'd ignored longing so many times through the years until eventually I'd just stopped feeling it.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“Let’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings. — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
“We'd had small lives, populated by a longing for something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“Last night, lost in spaces between star—bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Theres a difference between what we long for, what we settle for, and who we are meant for. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound. — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
“...that breath of relief that there is someone in the world, finally, who understands what hurts you.” — Lysley Tenorio Copy Share Image
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Some men thought about the Roman Empire at least once a day. Krys was my Roman Empire.” — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
“All longings the essence for real liberation only, Freedom from all sides, an ultimate supremacy; - 43 -” — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
