(208 quotes found)
“There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing”
Kahlil Gibran
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“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 or she] left behind.”
Clementine Paddleford
“There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.”
Jan Myrdal
“Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to”
Ashleigh Brilliant
“Hick darling...I couldn't say je t'aime et je t'adore as I longed to do, but always remember I am saying it, that I go to sleep thinking of you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?”
Greta Garbo
“We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when”
Starhawk
“Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.”
Ramakrishna
“So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition”
Theodore Roethke
