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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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