“There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.”
Albert Einstein
“Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.”
Madonna
“Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to”
Ashleigh Brilliant
“Even if you chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, with great longing, your past actions are still not erased.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure”
Theodore Roethke
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
Mahatma Gandhi