Asks Quote by William Butler Yeats

Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those…

— Gautama Buddha

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

— Boyd K. Packer

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.

— Gautama Buddha

Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.

— Ibn Majah

Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only the will…

— Francois Fenelon

In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually…

— Alexis Carrel

Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.

— Anonymous

The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth,…

— Sarah Doudney

Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

— Francis Quarles