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#longing

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I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.


James McGreevey


#bring #change #christian #church #doctrine

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.


Emily Mortimer


#after #bar #belonging #call #dreamed

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.


Richard Powers


#ever #grabs #live #others #racism

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.


Tony Snow


#confusion #experiences #express #fear #generally

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.


Michael C. Hall


#acting #being #belonging #break #discovered

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.


Anna Sui


#further #goes #human #human nature #instant

The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land - all things born of the soul that can only be felt.


Anthony De Sa


#longing #soul #life

There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.


Ian Mcewan


#hope #longing #life

You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it.


John Lanchester


#life #material-possessions #stuff #life

We live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all.


Elizabeth Blake


#belonging #differences #identity #family






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