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Tag Name "Longing" (593)

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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
Anna Sui
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Longing is all that lasts.
Jennifer Stone
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Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
Rick Warren
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Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.
Robert Hass
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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
Saint Augustine
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Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.
Rumi
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Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.
Coleman Barks
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
Kate DiCamillo
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Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.
Jane Urquhart
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Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the thing longed after...unless you long for deliverance you shall not have it.
John Owen
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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
Ramakrishna
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longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Men in long-term relationships, we all know how they lose their mojo, they just completely fall apart. They feel like they're not even a man anymore, and they get kind of feminized and weird and they have this longing for this animal, brutal part of themselves to come back. Love does something to men.
Anna Biller
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But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.
Albert Einstein
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They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart. I'm tracking your killers,he whispered to his uncle.-Eragon
Christopher Paolini
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I take no pride in hopeless longing I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.
Ayn Rand
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If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
Anna Freud
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My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.
Albert Einstein
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We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.
Clementine Paddleford
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
Barbara Kingsolver
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It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.
Abbi Glines
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Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense of longing that he can't quite satiate.
Colin Farrell
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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 of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.
Beat Streuli
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