What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
When we kissed, it didn't matter that I had been a wolf hours ago, or that I would be a wolf again.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The daily clinical experience of thousands of massage therapists, physical therapists, and physicians strongly indicates that most of our common aches and… — Clair Davies Copy Share Image
Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over,… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
I forgot my watch. Minutes or hours later, when the panic subsides, that is what I most regret. Not coming here in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache… — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Here it comes again like a tidal wave come crashing down I'm drowning with my heart still pounding but there is no… — Cheilis Feior Copy Share Image
I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself ... the old primitive urge for survival.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the… — Gabor Mate Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time what it's like to work with my mother. I feel completely blessed because, first of all,… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
Because I’ve lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and… — Homer Copy Share Image
That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me,… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
