#longed

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ↗

— Anatole France

#another #before #behind #changes #die

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#instance #nation #prolonged #warfare

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#bashful #being #belonged #court #dull

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#behave #got #helpful #human #human race

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#belonged #brought #even #feel #film

Prolonged endurance tames the bold. ↗

— Lord Byron

#endurance #prolonged

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

#beauty #been #before #came #i

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac. ↗

— George B. McClellan

#ask #belonged #consciousness #feel #higher

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls. ↗

— Kent McCord

#controls #fly #flying #hours #i

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#been #belonged #company #easy #graduated