Exclusion Quote by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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

— Amos Oz

“When we create a life based on what we think we are supposed to do rather than from our own heart's desire, we always…

— HeatherAsh Amara

At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part…

— Beat Streuli

“I hide myself to avoid others; but the lust for life reasserts itself, through the boredom or in the inflection of distress. It's an…

— Anne de Gandt

“longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.”

— Stephen Cope

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things…

— Orhan Pamuk

Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy.…

— Felix Gonzalez-Torres

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken…

— John Piper

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the…

— Ram Dass

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life,…

— Paullina Simons

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

— Tara Brach

“Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for something. When…

— Robert Black