“The ghosts that exert the most power in people’s lives-at least, the people I know–tend to be of their own making, and… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
“Consider my Lover; the yellow church of his skin, the clean wells of his ears; How the notes of a song come… — Cecilia Llompart Copy Share Image
“Love consumes me like the burning flame of a candle, I grieve in your Longing, my desire too agonizing to be handled… — Irtika Kazi Copy Share Image
“Minli suddenly thought of Ma and Ba. A wave of longing washed through her and a dryness caught in her throat that… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
Our world is... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender... and ours; a… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
I'm here again, a thousand miles away from you. A broken mess, just scattered pieces of who I am. I tried so… — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“All they did was stir up desire, and longing, and hopelessness, a trio of miserable caged wildcats that had been installed in… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
“Caleb was like a hurricane that swept through my life, stirring up things inside of me that I never knew existed. He… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Dear ex, best friend, crush and close homie. Do you think about me as much as I think bout you? I sure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through… — John Friend Copy Share Image
Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods,… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
“It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. We are longing for God the… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“What I want is him back, him standing beside me, him laughing at all this. I would settle for even his worst… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
“Our stomachs live in towns," said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
“We had, as men, time So our thirst could slowly be satisfied, the ancestral longing to enumerate things and sum them up,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't… — Meindert DeJong Copy Share Image
The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“...that distant longing and determination, that knowledge that he was born for something greater than his small past or his sleepy present.” — Leon Logothetis Copy Share Image
“But here’s the dilemma: Why is “how-to” so alluring when, truthfully, we already know “how to” yet we’re still standing in the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if,… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
![“We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the…” quote by Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/sam-keen-4929_airborne_we-all-yearn-to-fly-we-are-creatures-of_890048.jpg)
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