#longing

We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food. ↗

— Kate Wicker

#eating-disoders #hunger #longing #soul #starving

Blow O wind to where my loved one is. Touch him and come touch me soon. I'll feel his gentle touch through you and meet his beauty in the moon. These things are much for the one who loves. One can live by them alone: that he and I breathe the same air and that the Earth we tread is one. ↗

— Ramayana

#longing #love #seperation #beauty

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore. ↗

— Sela Ward

#been #children #explore #feel #his way

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#air #around #below #dark #discontent

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start. ↗

— John Grisham

#childhood dream #dream #how #i #i do

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. ↗

— William Glasser

#belonging #driven #five #fun #genetic

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

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier. ↗

— Susan Lieberman

#building #chaotic #create #easier #living

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#creator #given #longing #which #you

I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#any #because #desire #feminine #huge