“The ocean exerts an inexorable pull over sea people wherever they are-in a bright-lit, inland city or the dead center of a… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It wasn't shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus' followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Calling to Measure It’s an obsession now, this matching And measuring, comparing, for instance, The coral-violet of the inner lip Of a… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“From the days of our ancestors, those forgotten few who birthed us all, mankind has gazed awestruck into the heavens above. Night… — Taylor P. Davidson Copy Share Image
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“Behind my closed lids, my eyes stung, and I bit my lip. Tristan stroked my hair and I opened my eyes, staring… — Danielle L. Jensen Copy Share Image
“Once, I’d been so afraid you would forget me. Now I knew you wouldn’t, but it didn’t make me feel any better.… — Nicola Maye Goldberg Copy Share Image
Startups alternate between nostalgia for the garage and millennial longing for a lucrative exit. But what I always keep in mind is… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your… — Robin McKinley 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
“It’s the Longing that ultimately undoes you. When it finds you, it gnaws at your bones and tugs at your chest. It… — Matthew Sturges Copy Share Image
I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I wish I was still that little girl..the one that the only kind of hurt was when I scraped my knees. When… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Woe to the heart of this one, the one who feels his touch when she sleeps and craves his voice in her… — Kristiana Evans Copy Share Image
Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“But if these unavoidable separations cause you a measure of pain, they also increase your longing for her, and perhaps that isn’t… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The wish to be super-strong is a healthy wish, a vital, compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
“He cupped my face in his hands. "Then listen to me, my blind, stubborn, darling friend. You stole my heart the night… — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
“She was not sure if she would want him to have known; we do not always wish for those for whom we… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hannah." He looks at me, the same way he looked at me last night in the diner, with longing and sadness, and… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
“Thoreau admonished, “Our life is frittered away by detail.… Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” This longing for simplicity is so powerful and complex that… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Also – for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had been grilled… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When i remember your name i know you are my hope. for what ? not for love... 'cause i know you can't… — Yulianto Eko P Copy Share Image
This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no… — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
I know that Dad was an idol to millions who grew up loving his music and his ideals. But to me he… — Julian Lennon Copy Share Image
To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy… — Kobayashi Issa Copy Share Image
God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
