The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am the man you've needed all you life. I can give you whatever you wish before you even realize you are… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we… — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
“She hears the word bell, or orchard, or swallow, and she experiences a strange surprise, like the feel of a coin in… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
Every time I talk about memories between us, I feel myself light up and feel the big smile forming, the one you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You do see me crossing the meadow stiff and dead from the mist? I long for that home, that home I've never… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“إنني أعتبر الإيمان بهذه الطريقة، مثل البستان فيه ورود مخفية كنت أطوف فيه ذات يومٍ وأستنشق الروائح العطرة التي تعبق منه، لكن… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“I looked at him. Then I turned my face away. Beyond my upset I was flooded by a deep happiness, similar to… — Edith Templeton Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known,… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
“The experience of time translates itself into language, and language translates itself into distance, which translates itself into longing, which is the… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
“Comes again the longing, the desire that has no name. Is it for Mrs. Prouty, for a drink, for both: for a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
On the other hand, whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do ,and if we want… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“Janus found himself drawn to the edge of the rink, staring fixedly at Candace as she approached: grinning, puffing steam, her cheeks… — Chris Lester Copy Share Image
I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians,… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
When there's a strong desire within you to express or create something, know that this feeling is Divine discontent. Your longing is… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
“There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it — no larger than a single grain of malt. You… — Robert Kurvitz Copy Share Image
“Turn from that road's beguiling ease; return to your hunger's turret. Enter, climb the stair chill with disuse, where the croaking toad… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And from that moment, I watched her. Watched her with different coloured eyes, until the raging energy that coursed through my body… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“That year, when the trees burned the fire of late summer into their leaves and the ground mist was a ghost of… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
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