Longing Quote by Bodhidharma

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason…

— Bodhidharma

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

— Frank Gehry

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

— Robert Hass

When you are at one with the world, you often find that the thing you seek is seeking you.

— Charles F. Haanel

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

— John Steinbeck

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

— Anna Sui

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are…

— Anonymous

People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately…

— Desmond Tutu

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

— Gail Godwin

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration,…

— Philip Sington

Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the…

— Joan D. Chittister

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

— E. L. Doctorow