“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
“When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We are called by God to live by faith and in spirit, to long and desire for His promises. It's not yet… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Listen to the one who has not been wounded, the one who says, 'It is not good that man should be alone.'… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“In speaking of this desire for our own far off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean… — Richard Maurice Bucke Copy Share Image
Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal… — Chenjerai Hove Copy Share Image
Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
“Peter’s gone away on his training weekend. It’s only been one day and I’m already longing for him the way I long… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Jesus beckons his followers to a path that's far from the easy road. It's a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
To me, TV relationships work at their best when there is a deep longing and feelings and interest and sexual attraction that… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
“When we parted, on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, I leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. ‘If you do… — Adam Leith Gollner Copy Share Image
“What if my body—just my body, my heart—cried out for his? What to do then? What if at night I wouldn't be… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
“Someone once said that nostalgia is longing for a place you’d never go back to and thinking about it… that’s pretty much… — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“The locust continues to devour the world Hunger persists Love lurches on listing to starboard like a ship in a bottle Human… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
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