When longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“How long, Klara wondered now, how long after the mortar set did the joy remain? When one embraces a moment of rapture… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“My soul will not sleep For want of my sister The river runs between us And I am sick with loss. My… — L.M. Ironside Copy Share Image
For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“For he has faith enough, he feels, if he were really to delve into himself, faith enough to move mountains, but he… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Though we had to part, though we could never be together again. We had no regrets. Even if he returned to his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“The Troubadours Etc." Just for this evening, let's not mock them. Not their curtsies or cross-garters or ever-recurring pepper trees in their… — Mary Szybist Copy Share Image
“bye-bye love, as in songs. All alone now. It was so sad. Why did such things have to disintegrate like that? Why… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
That longing in the heart of a woman to share life together as a great adventure-that comes straight from the heart of… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“The great longing of an unquiet heart is to possess constantly and consciously the loved one, or, failing that, to be able… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“My beloved has arrived, but rather than greeting him, All I can do is bite the corner of my apron with a… — Kim Dong Hwa Copy Share Image
President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
While He [the Lord Jesus] was sitting alone by the well, 'There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water' (John 4:7).… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
We Are All the Same Listen to the reeds as they sway apart; Hear them speak of lost friends. At birth, you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“I don't know why people are so shy about expressing openly in front of the world their longing for each other, the… — Angel Wagenstein Copy Share Image
“When one is alone, imperfection must be endured every minute of the day; a couple, however, does not have to put up… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
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“Perhaps the most devastating and damaging thing that can happen to someone is to fail to fulfill his potential. A kind of… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image