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Longing Quotes
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Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that hope whereby we grasp things of the future as though they were present. Without the power of desire there is no longing, and so no love, which is the issue of longing; for the property of desire is to love something. And without the incensive power, intensifying the desire for union with what is loved, there can be no peace, for peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired (Longing Quotes)
Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and we can never really be saved? Maybe love is really born of our fears. Love is the heart’s desire for a painkiller; a tearful plea for a great big epidural. Yes that’s it: love is the only anesthesia that really works. And so people with broken hearts are really those who are just coming to, and if you’ve ever seen someone come out of general anesthesia, you know that it looks a lot like the beginnings of a broken heart (Longing Quotes)
I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That’s where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing (Longing Quotes)
The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild’s fondness? (Longing Quotes)
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations (Longing Quotes)
Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable (Longing Quotes)
The song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely (Longing Quotes)
I’ve written a number of songs over the years and it’s a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It’s sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home (Longing Quotes)
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing (Longing Quotes)
People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner’s vulnerability (Longing Quotes)
If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there’s a mysterious way in which that truth will find you (Longing Quotes)
There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other (Longing Quotes)
What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life (Longing Quotes)
It got to a point of where it was ruining my health and I just hated it. I hated doing it and I couldn’t stop without some kind of help to get the longing for it out of my system (Longing Quotes)
We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul (Longing Quotes)
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing (Longing Quotes)
How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels! (Longing Quotes)
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair (Longing Quotes)
Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment (Longing Quotes)
That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now (Longing Quotes)
Loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that (Longing Quotes)
I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind (Longing Quotes)
Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite (Longing Quotes)
Who hasn’t slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave? (Longing Quotes)
Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action (Longing Quotes)
The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing (Longing Quotes)
In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That’s my success (Longing Quotes)
.. now I begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, I fear it will never be assuaged. I think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me (Longing Quotes)
I’m afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value (Longing Quotes)
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write (Longing Quotes)