Nostalgia Quote by Emily P. Freeman Download Open image ““You have a longing to be understood, but still feel the need to protect yourself.”” — Emily P. Freeman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nostalgia Protect yourself
“I don't think you comprehend the depth of my feeling for you. It goes beyond wanting to be near you, or protect you. I… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“You try so hard to shield me, and protect me, and really, there is no need, you try so hard to hide what you… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“I want to be with someone who understand me, who at least cares enough about me to try to understand.” — Rachel K. Burke Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you will need to be understood; what you never show to anyone will need companionship. And then you must come to me.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Know who you are, and trust that you can know yourself no matter how inexperienced or scared you might feel. Then own the shit… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
“I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I would rather have a go at something I feel, and be hurt, than always be protecting myself—that way one does not really live.” — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
“Do not try to understand. What I feel for you cannot be limited to words. I know that you have moved on with your… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
“What’s the point in protecting yourself when it keeps you from feeling anything?” — Nyrae Dawn Copy Share Image
“You love with a fierce courage that I do not understand, and yet I wish that I could have it too.” — Douglas Patten Copy Share Image
“But come down. Come here. I can promise to give you this: an appetite for silence. Loneliness, and ways to find it when you… — Kirstin Scott Copy Share Image
“Speak to yourself, for you are the only person who will truly understand.” — J.V. Nolan Copy Share Image
“This is also a book abut God, about what it means--and what it doesn't mean--to believe.” — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“But understand that the reason it is so difficult to extend forgiveness to those who have failed us is because we are unable to… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“He (God) never promises that our families will be safe. Not in the way we think. He does promise his presence, though.” — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“Without looking up to God, sinking leads to drowning. But when my eyes are locked on his, sinking tells a different story. Drop the hands and let the knees be weak. Loosen the grip and let the arms open wide. Bow the head and let the eyes close tight. We cannot do this life. We cannot parent these children. We… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share
“I didn't want to be such a good girl anymore. I wanted people to fear messing with me. ... I wanted to be intimidating.… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“Steven Pressfield writes in his bestselling book The War of Art, “Self-doubt can be an ally. This is because it serves as an indicator of aspiration. It reflects love, love of something we dream of doing, and desire, desire to do it. If you find yourself asking yourself . . . ‘Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?’ Chances are… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share
“God gives us the courage to face those fears and then invites us to move toward him in the midst of them.” — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“Maybe you're wondering what it actually means to live a graceful life. We've got many chapters ahead to figure out what that might look… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“... the voice of the Dreamer convinced me that 'later' would always be better than 'now', that 'someday' is where life will really happen… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“Because I care so much about what you think, my hiding has everything to do with you. I desperately want to manage your opinion… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“The question I constantly asked myself was this: What am I supposed to do?” — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“When we listen to the voice of the Dreamer and hide behind our somedays, we miss out on the gifts of today.” — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that time. The era of ancient Egyptian culture lasted for several thousand years; the era of Greek antiquity for almost a thousand. In this respect, a single human life imitates the history of mankind; at first it… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east of Huron County. We passed a country store standing empty at a crossroads. It had old-fashioned store windows, with long narrow panes. Out in front there was a stand for gas pumps which weren't there anymore.… — Alice Munro Copy Share
“Can you miss someone you haven’t seen for longer than you knew them? Maybe we rue the time not the person.” — Hannah Rothschild Copy Share Image
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
