Longing Quotes

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Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual. — Andrei Tarkovsky
The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we… — Sam Shoemaker
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense… — Hector Berlioz
I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find… — Amy Lowell
Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex, when a young… — Rajneesh
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and… — John Welwood
And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One,… — Gautama Buddha
He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is… — Gautama Buddha
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children… — Gautama Buddha
Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and… — Gautama Buddha
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of… — Oriah Dreamer
In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or… — David Richo
Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but more that we… — Ravi Ravindra
When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the… — Elizabeth Lesser
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers… — Martin Prechtel
The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to… — Bret Anthony Johnston
In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where… — Unknown Author
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it. — Robert Goolrick
Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine." — Calvin Coolidge

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