Longing Quotes - Page 36

• Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour, which is the root of envy; the desire to conquer and be the deciding factor; pride in the glory of power; the urge to adorn oneself and to be liked; the craving for praise; concern and anxiety for physical well-being. All these are of the world; they combine deceitfully to hold us in heavy bonds.

  Tito Colliander

  Pride, Roots, Envy

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.30, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time nor pains to communicate his spiritual treasures and lead the seeker to the light.

  Franz Bardon

  Spiritual, Pain, Light

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• The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left.

  Martha Manning

  Pain, Joy, Vacancy

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• Love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it is more than a desire to marry a potential partner; it goes beyond intense sexual attraction; it exceeds the thrill at having "captured" a highly desirable social prize. Real love is an expression of the deepest appreciation for another human being; it is awareness of his or her needs and longings- past, present and future. It is unselfish, giving and caring.

  James Dobson

  Appreciation, Real, Caring

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• Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Essence, Parent, Want

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Dream, Home, Imagination

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• Sometimes a storm in your life is what will
  blow you to the place you are longing to be.

  Beth Moore

  Blow, Storm, Sometimes

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• All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are feeling the same way and unite us with them.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Heaven, Feelings

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• William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s, on Americans' fundamental understandings of their world in a bicentennial year that offered little to celebrate, but also on the longing for heroism and the desire for belief in free will that Graebner believes structured the rise of Reagan-era conservatism. This is a masterful work of cultural history.

  Beth Bailey

  Believe, Struggle, Years

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• But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Regret, Asking Yourself Why, Answers

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• The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Bankers, Kind, Investment

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby; the desire came up suddenly.

  Rachel Weisz

  Baby, Forever, Desire

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

  Jennifer Lee

  Loneliness, People, Choices

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something He can use for the good of others takes place only when the offering is put into his hands.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Loneliness, Sacrifice, Hands

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.67, Revell

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• Jesus . . . wants us to see that the neighbor next door or the people sitting next to us on a plane or in a classroom are not interruptions to our schedule. They are there by divine appointment. Jesus wants us to see their needs, their loneliness, their longings, and he wants to give us the courage to reach out to them.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Jesus, Loneliness, Doors

  David Peterson, Rebecca Manley-Pippert (2013). “Out of the Saltshaker and into the World: Evangelism As A Way Of Life”, p.104, SPCK

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• The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Race, Support

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.37, Broadway Books

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• The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

  Agatha Christie

  Past, Gold, Daggers

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Dream, May, Helping

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• I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Optimistic, Government, People

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Loneliness, Book, Heart

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.

  Masiela Lusha

  Understood, Primal, Bounds

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .

  Andrew Lam

  Home, Identity, Floating

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful.

  Tara Brach

  Beautiful, Life Is, Celebrate Life

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Our greatest longing is to be intimate.

  Tara Brach

  Intimate

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Innocence, Lost, Remove

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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