Longing Quotes - Page 27

• Our world is... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender... and ours; a God whose love frightens us into His strong and powerful arms where He longs to whisper those terrifying words, 'I love you.'

  Mike Yaconelli

  Strong, Powerful, Love You

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• Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

  Erwin McManus

  Alive, Instinct, Deeper

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically

  Terry Pratchett

  Spring, Rivers, Water

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.91, Random House

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• How can one live without hope and longing?

  Sarah Moon

  Without Hope

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• I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Growing Up, Boys, Poverty

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Blood, Voice, Alive

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Stars, Real, Light

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• But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

  Martin Buber

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Lev Shestov, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber (1969). “Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings”

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• I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

  Suketu Mehta

  Country, Citizens, Exile

  Suketu Mehta (2006). “Maximum city: Bombay lost and found”, p.33, Penguin Books India

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• Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Reflection, Sun, Lovers

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• God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

  Josiah Royce

  Inspire, World, Absolutes

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard
  work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.

  Anne Lamott

  Hard Work, Wife, Age

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• Jesus beckons his followers to a path that's far from the easy road. It's a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited possibilities - the only path that can fulfill the deepest longings and desires of your heart.

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Heart, Adventure

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• When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.

  Danica Patrick

  Girlfriend, Husband, Thinking

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• Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

  Danica Patrick

  Memories, Gone, Chance

  "CUP: Thursday Charlotte Notebook", www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2012.

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• If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

  Idries Shah

  Teacher, Convince Us, Different

  Idries Shah (1990). “Sufi Thought and Action”, p.5, Octagon Press Ltd

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• St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Loss, Years, Remembrance

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.37, Pan Macmillan

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• Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.

  Shari Arison

  Home, Elderly, Listening Ear

  "Coming to Do Good" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner do they see the light of the world, stretching their longing heads out from the cracks in the snow, than they are instantly nipped off. For these plants isn't the sorrow as deep as that of the child's parents whose child had accidentally died? They say everything in the plant and tree kingdom attains Buddhahood. Then they, too, must have Buddha-nature.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Death, Children, Spring

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• It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.

  Louie Giglio

  Struggle, Heart, Matter

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• I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

  Philippa Gregory

  Rejection, Darkness, Despair

  Philippa Gregory (2004). “The Queen's Fool: A Novel”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

  William Matthews

  Forever, Contentment, Strive

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• The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

  Khalil Gibran

  Paradise

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• The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, World, Stable

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Dream, Lying, Fate

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