Education Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“[...] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Well, I had often pondered all this, not without an intense longing sometimes to turn to and do something real for once, to be…

— Hermann Hesse

“Here then was a deadlock. I wanted to get the most out of life, but the more I tried to grasp, the more I…

— Marion Milner

“i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it.…

— Frederick Douglass

“I wanted to be able to live in the world so that I could live with myself. I wanted to do something practical to…

— James Orbinski

“Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in…

— Charles Robert Maturin

“You can be all that you wish and desire to be. Take the challenge and pursue your most cherished dreams.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“You are too young, I think, to understand yet the nature of desire. You know what it is to want, perhaps even to yearn,…

— Augustus Rose

“The story of my life is wanting, hungering, for what I cannot have or, perhaps, wanting what I dare not allow myself to have.”

— Roxane Gay

“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”

— Maggie Nelson

“try to remember that these are all roles I have chosen—not out of obligation or out of fear, but out of purpose, out of…

— Wes Moore