Culture Quote by John Ortberg

Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And…

— Rumi

Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd…

— Susan Minot

Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the…

— Joan D. Chittister

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

— Amos Oz

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

— Li-Young Lee

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

— John Steinbeck

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

— Tara Brach

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more…

— Ellen Glasgow

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

— George Bernard Shaw

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

— Martin Heidegger

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

— Robert Hass

All human eyes have longing in them.

— Ernesto Cardenal