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“I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Amelie seemed to focus on her again. For a few seconds she regarded her, frowning, and then smiled just a little. "So… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt. I can… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The way a love letter longs to be read I long for you. The way the poor Kane longs for his sled… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Desire is like a fire. It burns within the soul It cannot be put out and it makes a person whole Setting… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
“Whenever Sadie sees engagement rings, she feels a strange mix of emotions: a kind of excitement mixed with a vague sadness. A… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
“Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after… — T.A. Grey Copy Share Image
Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
“So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something, not even… — Osho Copy Share Image
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The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more -… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare… — Oriah Mountain Dreamer Copy Share Image
“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. I’ve never understood how being loved fully could… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
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“My heart has a way of moving, only, for those I can never be with.. Longing for things that might only occur… — Sarah Adel Copy Share Image
Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love withouten measure; desire withouten limit; longing withouten order; burning without… — Richard Rolle Copy Share Image
At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means “the longing for something.” It has Romantic and mystical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon,… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
“Be the man who has the spirit of a ruthless tiger, ravaging every dusty corner of my soul. Be the man for… — Malak El Halabi Copy Share Image
The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“After a dazed moment, Specialist Kit Murphy put his arms loosely around her, and Josie Schaeffer clung to him, knowing this man… — Siobhan Fallon Copy Share Image
The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“The vivid memory of the woods had blossomed into a visceral longing for the Ridge, so immediate that I felt the ghost… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I hold your picture but not your body, I kiss your picture but not your lips, I see your smile from the… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
