“We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.” — Kate Wicker Copy Share Image
“My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will… — Liam Perrin Copy Share Image
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there? — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I hear longing in these notes. They go all the way to the past and forward to some future where I haven't… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing. — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic… — Frank Black Copy Share Image
The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
“He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret,… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
“So much longing. So many lives filled with longing. It's what stories― all our stories― are made of. And what is longing… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
My "heart". Does that pitiful organ still represent anything? It lies motionless in my chest, pumping no blood, serving no purpose, and… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“There was our love - there was our hope that we'd walk out of this with a future. There was our acceptance… — Armentrout Jennifer L Copy Share Image
I still cry every night. I still walk in the door calling for you. I still call your phone. I still cant… — Mickey Anderson Copy Share Image
I love you. And not in a friendly way, although I think we're great friends. Very simple, very truly. You're the epitome… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“As he walked past the newsstand, he couldn't help sniffing the air, searching for hints of bacon, coconut, and vanilla. Combined with… — Amy E. Reichert Copy Share Image
“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
“But sometimes you can want something too much, there is always a threshold & a place to fall.” — Quan Barry Copy Share Image
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“A woman is at heart – a wild creature. But the creature itself … that depends on you. (His wild rabbit – your wild horse)” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future. — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“and the river’s voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Forgiveness of self is impossible until you stop longing for a better past. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If ever I see you smile and know that it is not for me, that is when I will miss you the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Sometimes we meet people once, but we over think that moment, hoping and assuming that maybe he's the one we are waiting… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that more than loss, it was the longing that hurt the most.” — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
