Longing Quotes

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We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or… — Clementine Paddleford
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that… — Khalil Gibran
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an… — Albert Schweitzer
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be… — Rajneesh
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there… — Muriel Barbery
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many… — Khalil Gibran
I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing… — William Joseph Burns
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation. — William James
Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why… — James Earl Jones
Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which… — Unknown Author
The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned. — Nathaniel Branden
I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him. — Stormie Omartian
Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite. — Huston Smith
The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my… — Olivia Williams
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are… — Richard Bach
The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The… — Sarah Doudney
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. — Hermann Broch
One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a… — Stephen King
When there's a strong desire within you to express or create something, know that this feeling is Divine discontent. Your longing is your calling- and… — Louise Hay
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details… — Janine Benyus

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