Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

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
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings. — Albert Einstein
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively… — Arthur Kleinman
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child,… — Ruth Bernhard
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 divine… — Mahatma Gandhi
The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and a… — Robert Fritz
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. — Leonard Cohen
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging. — Tara Brach
The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people… — John O'Donohue
We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after the heavens; and… — John O'Donohue
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent… — Diane Ackerman
To awaken a new longing for holiness: this is the great pastoral challenge that we have before us, if we want to be faithful to… — Unknown Author
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes,… — Ruth Pitter
Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the… — Richard Rolle
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful. — John C. Maxwell

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