Longing Quotes - Page 39

• To awaken a new longing for holiness: this is the great pastoral challenge that we have before us, if we want to be faithful to God's plan and also to respond to the yearnings and hopes of the peoples of America and of all peoples on earth.

  Crescenzio Sepe

  Faith, Inspiration, America

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• Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes, heaven hypothetical, Nature indifferent, and the dreams of men Figments of longing which we must condemn. Yet keep these plants, O Man! a kinder time May yet be moved by them to better rhyme, Or moved, like me, to place his pleasure low, On the firm Earth, whence Men and Blossoms grow.

  Ruth Pitter

  Death, Dream, Men

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• Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love withouten measure; desire withouten limit; longing withouten order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread distressed, nor by doom tempted.

  Richard Rolle

  Love, Order, Giving

  "The Fire of Love".

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• Through winter-time we call on spring,
  And through the spring on summer call,
  And when the abounding hedges ring
  Declare that winter's best of all:
  And after that there's nothing good
  Because the spring time has not come-
  Not know that what disturbs our blood
  Is but its longing for the tomb.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Summer, Spring

  William Butler Yeats (2012). “The Tower: A Facsimile Edition”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Noble, Significant

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

  Russell M. Nelson

  Funny Marriage, Forever, Soul

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• The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world - to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spiritual, Sweet, Nature

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• The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

  Albert Einstein

  Dark, Years, Light

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.289, Broadway Books

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• I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

  Laura Dern

  Children, Struggle, Dark

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• This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what we can to help them acknowledge it and to realize it by joining in worship. We thereby carry to others the answer to their inmost longing, a yearning for union with the Trinity, a thirst to respond with adoration to the God who made them.

  Marva Dawn

  Joining In, Looks, Answers

  Marva J. Dawn (2009). “In the Beginning, GOD: Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life”, p.44, InterVarsity Press

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• That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on herself, who was cowardly and brave, who was confused and determined-that girl who was me-still exists. I call on her when I write. I am the me of today-the person who has become a woman, a mother, a writer. Yet I am the me of all those other days as well. I believe in the reality of that past.

  Norma Fox Mazer

  Girl, Mother, Dream

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• For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong. The nub of the problem is how to flip over, as in jujitsu, the magnificent growth energy of modern civilization into a nonacquisitive search for deeper knowledge of self and nature.

  Gary Snyder

  Self, Civilization, Growth

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• Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex, when a young person goes beyond desires, when a young person goes beyond greed, ambition, the longing to be powerful, the ambition to be famous, then it is something tremendously meaningful, significant.

  Rajneesh

  Meaningful, Sex, Powerful

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• Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.

  John Welwood

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Freedom, Peaceful

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• He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mind, Sensuality

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• The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter. It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break. Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Strong, Buddhist

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• Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Spring, Cutting

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• In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. It will always mean leaving something behind,...The paradox here is that loss is a path to gain.

  David Richo

  Hero, Mean, Loss

  David Richo (2014). “How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration”, p.17, Paulist Press

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• Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.

  Rob Brezsny

  Loneliness, People, Feeling Lonely

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.72, Frog Books

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• Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but more that we meditate. And then gradually to meditate more and more on what corresponds to the innermost longing of our heart. The practice of meditation . . . gradually works its magic in stilling the mind. (42)

  Ravi Ravindra

  Heart, Practice, Meditation

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Spiritual, Mind, Quiet

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

  Martin Prechtel

  Music, Grief, Singers

  Martín Prechtel (2013). “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form”, p.83, North Atlantic Books

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• The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

  Bret Anthony Johnston

  Loss, Past, Bridges

  Bret Anthony Johnston (2014). “Remember Me Like This: A Novel”, p.197, Random House

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• In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.

  Christos Tsiolkas

  Country, Song, Play

  Christos Tsiolkas (1995). “Loaded”, Random House Australia

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