The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing. Sophie Kerr

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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. John Le Carre

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It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge. Albert Einstein

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Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life. Alexander Maclaren

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Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to. Ashleigh Brilliant

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I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it. Ayn Rand

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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. Barbara Kingsolver

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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. Bertrand Russell

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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking. Bodhidharma

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Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action. Brenda Shoshanna

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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. Charles Lamb

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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. George Eliot

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Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire. Georges Bataille

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Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. Haruki Murakami

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

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My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. Henry Ward Beecher

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Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. Hermann Broch

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Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled. Hildegard of Bingen

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There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond. Jan Myrdal

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The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles. John Masefield

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

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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. Judi Dench

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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. Leigh Bardugo

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We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes. Madeleine L'Engle

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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

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give. Marlin K. Jensen

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So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. Mary Oliver

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Happiness is the longing for repetition. Milan Kundera

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