Belief Quote by Anna Louise Strong

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

— Margaret Fuller

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

— Heather Mills

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of…

— Naguib Mahfouz

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I…

— Bede Griffiths

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's…

— Anonymous

“4. "Outward longings will drive you from the eden within; they offer false pleasures that only impersonate the souls happiness, The lost paradise is…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Rites–of–passage stories…were cherished in pre–literate societies not only for their entertainment value, but also as mythic tools to prepare young men and women for…

— Terri Windling

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was…

— John Woolman

It became easy for me to detach myself from the course of life, so that while my hands and mind were engaged in the…

— John G. Lake

My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had…

— Anchee Min

Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when…

— Yann Martel

What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life…

— Henry Miller