(139 quotes found)
“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
“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.”
Albert Einstein
“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
“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
“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do”
Orison Swett Marden
“All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure”
Theodore Roethke
“There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing”
Kahlil Gibran
“Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to”
Ashleigh Brilliant
“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
“The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.”