Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets,… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly… — Christos Tsiolkas Copy Share Image
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We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
“ The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination. She waited in vain. She saw… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“Could we possibly be from the place we want to be? Were we from the place we died rather than the place… — Joe Coomer Copy Share Image
The logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He lay on top of me, buried deep, and fell asleep. He slept all night like that, and I did not move… — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
“I came to the first floor and looked out at the entranceway of the building. For a second I pictured the way… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“...Grimacing, I plunged a hand into the fouled water to clear the clog, morbid curiosity drawing my youthful eyes to the gray… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without… — Richard Rolle Copy Share Image
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Out here are books and magazines- asleep, carrying the entire world in them, and standing there are walls and windows, staring at… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“We had been here often before as tourists, desperate for our annual ration of two or three weeks of true heat and… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
“Death is a fascinating thing. The human mind continually returns and returns to death, to mortality, immortality, damnation, salvation. Some fear death,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The night I tried to kill myself You came into my room and wept For me. The beauty of your longing Held… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, I have a great longing to hear something different from praise, for my soul sickens of too sweet a diet.… — John Beevers Copy Share Image
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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“You stole my heart the night we met, when you sang that ridiculous song and dared me not to laugh. and every… — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the eyes of his chosen one, and is ready to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
![“[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.” quote by Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/404/elisabeth-elliot-1209_amy_amy-carmichael-s-great-longing-was-to-ha_1010895.jpg)
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