Quotes About Longings

We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.

There were disappointments. Things you couldn't know you had wanted, or even things you were quite certain you hadn't wanted, but still, as you discovered, missed some aspect of.

I have had my share with boys, longings are for men heron.

To the objective observer it is perfectly clear that the fantasies were products of a psychic energy not under the control of the conscious mind. They were longings, impulses, and symbolic happenings which it was quite unable to cope with either positively or negatively.

The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

I remember having crushes and longings, but there were all these missed opportunities or things that seemed like such a big deal, but you really don't understand what the other person is going through.

Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of "deals," or compromises, between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.

Cia?a mamy zwierz?ce, lecz aspiracje boskie. Hormony przekroczy?y bariery postawione im przez biologi?, przez prawa ?wiata zwierz?t. Hormony nasze produkuj? enzymy g?odów nie do zaspokojenia, marze? nie do zrealizowania, t?sknot nie do zag?uszenia.

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

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

Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.*

Naturally, Miss Barrett was better; of course she could walk. Flush himself felt that it was impossible to lie still. Old longings revived; a new restlessness possessed him. Even his sleep was full of dreams. He dreamt as he had not dreamt since the old days at Three Mile Cross—of hares starting from the long grass;

As long as you hold Him at arm's length, you cannot know Him. This is because abiding relationships, including yours with the Lord, can only exist and grow through mutual intimacy. Friend, the only relationship that can fill your longings, sustain you through difficulties, and bring you peace is the relationship you have with God. Don't hold Him back in any way.

Emotions are by nature amorphous. When confined to words, our longings and passions, our rebellions and humiliations often seem melodramatic, trivial, or even pathetic.

Contrary to popular belief, positive affirmations cannot change everything and they are not likely to attract wealth and prosperity to you without considerable talent or action; but positive affirmations will help you to change your underlying beliefs and longings - they will help you to quit smoking.

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.

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.

it is not really the difference the oppressor fears so much as the similarity. He fears he will discover in himself the same aches, the same longings as those of the people he has shit on... . He fears he will have to change his life once he has seen himself in the bodies of the people he has called different.

It was his own miscegenation--his sensual enjoyment of a dark forbidden culture and his own forbidden longings and love--that dovetailed in his writings.

4. Outward longings will drive you from the eden within; they offer false pleasures that only impersonate the souls happiness, The lost paradise is quickly regained through divine meditation.

At a time when the ideological prestige of Soviet Russia had collapsed, utopian longings fixed themselves on the exotic East, the more easily because of the general ignorance of Chinese affairs.

Fillory and the Chatwins and the fatal longings they represented had been her dark side and she'd tried to pretend they didn't exist. She'd wanted to have one side only, like a Möbius strip. A Möbius person. But that was a mistake. She was starting to suspect that facing up to the nightmare of the past is what gives you the power to build your future.

Although throughout this book I am most frequently using the term "demon" to describe what we need to transform, think also about your gods, your obsessive longings. Consider that our hopes and desires can be as problematic as our fears.