Longing Quotes - Page 37

• Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

  Robert Bly

  Catholic, Church, Hierarchy

  Source: www.utne.com

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• All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.

  Robert Bly

  Girl, Boys, Night

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• Poetry keeps longing alive.

  Robert Bly

  Alive

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• Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

  Robert Bly

  People, Church, Prison

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• Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

  Robert Bly

  Gratitude, Thinking, Needs

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• Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'

  Robert Bly

  Wine, Divine Feminine, Attention

  Source: www.utne.com

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• We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'

  Robert Bly

  Attitude, Beer, Wrinkles

  Source: www.utne.com

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• C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.

  Francis Collins

  Spiritual, Connections, Influence

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1914). “Friends O' Mine: A Book of Poems and Stories”

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• These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all the time, And to lump all that under the word "creativity" assumes something much more static than it is. That's why an artist may be marvelous in her 20s, and be creating automatic crap in her 40s. A writer may be trivial in his 20s, and be writing incredibly in his 50s, because those things are always in flux.

  Michael Ventura

  Writing, Creativity, Artist

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by making this journey, whereas refugees by definition have lost a tremendous amount - not just country and society, but also more personal things like careers, prestige, status, relatives, identities. This inevitably makes the longing to remember the past even more powerful among refugees, to the point of often debilitating them.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Country, Powerful, Past

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think that's really the kind of exponential factor in being in a punk-rock band or making music videos and movies -pirates and rock 'n' roll go hand in hand. There is a `question authority,' `don't be afraid to break the rules' quality that whether you're a 4-year-old bouncing on your bed as your parents are trying to stop it or an adult longing for that feeling, there's something inside all of us that piracy speaks to. I'm going to do what I want to do and I don't care what you think.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, Parent, Feelings

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Even a good marriage leaves people with longings for certain things their marriage will never be. So, do they accept that, make compromises, and say, "You can't have everything in life," which is what we always did? Or do they say, "I deserve more. I want to experience that thing and, you know, I have fifty more years to live than I used to." It's not necessarily that we have more desires today, but we do feel more entitled to pursue them. We live in this "right to happiness" culture, and yes, we do live half a century longer than we used to.

  Esther Perel

  People, Desire, Culture

  "The Deeper Reasons Why People Have Affairs". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. October 20, 2017.

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• Our modern world-view tragically misperceives and wrongly defines what it is to be human. We are conditioned by our society to believe happiness comes from pleasure, or from getting things or power over people or money or fame or even health and survival. None of these sometimes very good things can bring ultimate meaning to our lives. We are born to be deeply conscious, inwardly free and deeply capable of love. The longing for these things is the definition of what it means to be human.

  Jacob Needleman

  Believe, Mean, People

  Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com

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• The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're about basic fears or longings or desires or fantasies, and stuff like that.

  Neil Jordan

  Character, Desire, Fairy Tale

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

  Eliza Griswold

  Thinking, Suffering, Poetry Is

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

  Teresa of Avila

  Heart, Giving, Wish

  St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.30, Library of Alexandria

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• I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

  Sandra Bullock

  Saws, Males, Roles

  "Sandra Bullock and Alfonso Cuarón Talk GRAVITY, Conveying the Physics of Space, Training for the Film, Seeing It for the First Time and DVD Extras". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 30, 2013.

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• The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

  John le Carre

  People, Literature, Messages

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• Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Spring, Moving, Dark

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.1

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• I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

  Amy Grant

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Destiny, Decision

  "The Path of the Law" (1897)

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• I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Stage

  "New Again: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Lisa Liebman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1992.

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• To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Sea, Desire, May

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.49, Prestwick House Inc

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• I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Movie, Games, People

  "Beyond the shoot-em-up: how gaming got killer stories" by Simon Parkin, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2014.

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