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You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses. — Elizabeth Hay

Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you. — Frank Herbert

Your sexuality was never meant to be separate from your deepest spiritual and relational longings but to be an expression of them. — Juli Slattery

When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray. — Opal Whiteley

We are the total of our longings. — Guy Gavriel Kay

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us. — John Steinbeck

In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us. — James Martin

Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment. — Mary Anne Radmacher

But what are wishes, compared with longings? — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I have Immortal longings in me. — William Shakespeare

I have laughter and amazement, not search results. I have unexpected longings, not hierarchical ratings. — D. Travers Scott

We are the total of our longings, he had written. But Kevin was a song-writer, not a poet, and he never did use it. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I must teach you to long for something better...For my uncontrollable longings for this man, Lord --- Your strength. — Elisabeth Elliot

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. — Julie Anne Peters

One of the greatest human longings is to be close to someone. — Kathleen R Fischer

Brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

All longings the essence for real liberation only,
Freedom from all sides, an ultimate supremacy;
- 43 - — Munindra Misra

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. — George Eliot

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God — Elyse Fitzpatrick

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. — Helen Keller

Oh FUCK the longings and agonies of youth. — John Irving

Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive. — Wendy Wright

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires. — Wallace D. Wattles

Does tension exist between our perfect longings and the imperfect world? — Terrence Real

These characters cannot truly reciprocate, but can only hold a mirror up to us and our longings. — Katherine Isbister

The gilded spiral
Of longings within.
Our very own cathedral
That points persistently to heaven. — Scott Hastie

My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies - Scout — Harper Lee

Buffeted by the passions and longings of youth. — Jon Krakauer

I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. — George R R Martin

One of the oldest longings of all people of mystical sensibility is to be rid of disguises to the point of becoming naked. — Dorothee Solle

The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever. — Russell M. Nelson

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

All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench

Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain. — Jack London

We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer. — Penny Reid

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied. — Criss Jami

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. — Richard Chenevix Trench

My library is an archive of longings. — Susan Sontag

I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone. — Jean Rhys

Did she think ginger cookies a substitute for impassioned longings and mad, wild, glamorous adventures? — L.M. Montgomery

All his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst

One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen. — John O'Donohue

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings. — Nancy Etcoff

Callings are deep longings to bring more of SOMETHING into your life. — Kami Guildner

The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings. — Therese Of Lisieux

In a world of tangled want, individual longings are often co-opted by more powerful interests. Satisfied desire in one sphere means loss in another. — Anonymous

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future. — Erwin McManus

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. — S.D. Gordon

The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance! — Saib Tabrizi