Longing Quotes

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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is… — Saint Augustine
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that… — Teresa of Avila
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. — Henry Ward Beecher
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we… — Saul Bellow
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in… — David Brainerd
I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw… — Sandra Bullock
The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will… — John le Carre
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down… — Coco Chanel
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers. — William Ames
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them… — Marguerite Duras
I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No… — Dierks Bentley
Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying. — Saint Augustine
I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're… — Charles Schumer
Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference. — Stephen Covey
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You… — Cesare Pavese
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you,… — Khalil Gibran
Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager,… — Robert Collier

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