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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 [he
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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. Votes: 2

William Shakespeare

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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. Votes: 2

Josiah Royce

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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments. Votes: 2

Rafael Yglesias

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I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality. Votes: 2

Isobelle Carmody

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Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived. Votes: 2

Rick Perlstein

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The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings. Votes: 2

Peter Abrahams

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People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with several hundred thousand other like-minded types is worrying. Votes: 2

Peter York

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I remember having crushes and longings, but there were all these missed opportunities or things that seemed like such a big deal, but you really don't understand what the other person is going through. Votes: 2

Gia Coppola

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body. Votes: 2

Lucy Stone

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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine. Votes: 2

Paramahansa Yogananda

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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion. Votes: 2

Feisal Abdul Rauf

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How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more. Votes: 2

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul. Votes: 2

Paramahansa Yogananda

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The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear. Votes: 2

John Ortberg

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That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it? Votes: 2

Nicole Krauss

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Never cut loose from your longings. Votes: 0

Amos Oz

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We are the total of our longings. Votes: 0

Guy Gavriel Kay

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My library is an archive of longings. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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But what are wishes, compared with longings? Votes: 0

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us. Votes: 0

John Steinbeck

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Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you. Votes: 0

Frank Herbert

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Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves. Votes: 0

Masiela Lusha

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One of the greatest human longings is to be close to someone. Votes: 0

Kathleen R Fischer

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One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen. Votes: 0

John O'Donohue

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The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven. Votes: 0

Scott Hastie

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Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings? Votes: 0

Amos Oz

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In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us. Votes: 0

James Martin

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I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. Votes: 0

Helen Keller

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...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. Votes: 0

Alan Hollinghurst

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Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever. Votes: 0

Russell M. Nelson

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Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings. Votes: 0

Nancy Etcoff

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You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Hay

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Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive. Votes: 0

Wendy Wright

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My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's. Votes: 0

Joni Eareckson Tada

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Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future. Votes: 0

Erwin McManus

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Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment. Votes: 0

Mary Anne Radmacher

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Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God Votes: 0

Elyse Fitzpatrick

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You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires. Votes: 0

Wallace D. Wattles

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The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance! Votes: 0

Saib Tabrizi

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All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. Votes: 0

Richard Chenevix Trench

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Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. Votes: 0

Leon Kass

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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. Votes: 0

Wilferd Peterson

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When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray. Votes: 0

Opal Whiteley

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A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings. Votes: 0

Therese of Lisieux

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The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power. Votes: 0

S. D Gordon

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The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings. Votes: 0

John Cheever

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None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. Votes: 0

Richard Chenevix Trench

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life. Votes: 0

Julie Anne Peters

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In dreams, through longings, we can seeâ All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could beâ But that will never, ever, grow. Votes: 0

Lucian Blaga

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Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. Votes: 0

Epes Sargent

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Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives. Votes: 0

Cherrie Moraga

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A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer. Votes: 0

Thomas Guthrie

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People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings. Votes: 0

Desmond Tutu

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Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge? Votes: 0

Jeffrey Eugenides

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The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other. Votes: 0

Jane Yolen

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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. Votes: 0

Emanuel Swedenborg

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It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest. Votes: 0

Robert Nozick

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I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings. Votes: 0

John Piper

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Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong. Votes: 0

L. Frank Baum

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We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls. Votes: 0

Stormie Omartian

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Spirituality is, ultimately, about what we do with that desire. What we do with our longings, both in terms of handling the pain and the hope they bring us, that is our spirituality. Votes: 0

Ronald Rolheiser

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The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart. Votes: 0

Marsha Norman

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Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings. Votes: 0

C.P. Cavafy

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Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations. Votes: 0

Maggie Scarf

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As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires. Votes: 0

William Cronon

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How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

Libba Bray

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Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.

Eric Hoffer

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Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.

Esther Perel

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How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.

Joyce Carol Oates

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There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us in such a way that we can never be truly satisfied with anything or anyone less than Himself

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

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My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.

Ravi Zacharias

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Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments appeared vile. I had no more value for the favor of men than for pebbles.

David Brainerd

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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Judith Butler

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Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.

Desmond Tutu

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... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.

Elizabeth Bowen

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If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

Madeleine L'Engle

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Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?

E. L. Konigsburg

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Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes ... you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.

Saint Francis de Sales

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The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.

Ruth Bernhard

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Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies, be reminded in private of your own. In that way, at least, we can hold a kind of converse.

Frederick Buechner

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The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it according to his inner self. The words go to the ear, but the true message travels straight to the spirit.

Juliet Marillier

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The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret longings that arise, Which this world never satisfies! Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy, no, not one!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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

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Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

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Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

Warren G. Bennis

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Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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The sight of a childâ¦will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons â longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

Carl Jung

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The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.

Sarah Doudney

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