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longing
«There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.»
Author: Jan Myrdal
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
dimension, longing, longings, third, third dimension, traveling
«The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| About:
Religion,
Sex
| Keywords:
fulfillment, longing, orgasm, orgasms, replaced, The cross
«The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first»
Author: French Proverb
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
first half, half, Half a Life, half life, longing, longings, regretting, second, second half, Second Life, spent, the first, The Second
«The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
ceasing, continuance, continuances, longing, prayer, prayers, THY
«There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Life,
Time
| Keywords:
banish, distinction, eccentric, eccentrics, longing, This is a, tired of
«Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life,
Passion
| Keywords:
governed, longing, overwhelmingly, passions, pity, search, The Search, The Suffering, unbearable
«To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
As god, desperate, executive, existence of God, experiment, helpless, lay hands on, longed, longing, organ, realization, regard, salvation, sole, teaching, the existence of God
«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.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bring, bring back, builds, creates, eternally, Itself, longing, longings, new, past, withdrawing, withdraws
«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.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
atom, chemist, compassion, compound, compounding, compounds, elements, extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, forgiveness, longing, patience, regret, surprise