#longing

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

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

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#country #democracy #fact #in fact #leaders

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#first #five #i #longing #old

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

— William Glasser

#belonging #driven #five #fun #genetic

And as if he had read her thoughts, the old man murmured, 'What a blessing it is to die in your own bed, under your own roof, with your family surrounding you, full of the knowledge that you have lived as thoroughly as you wanted to. ↗

— Anita Rau Badami

#dying #family

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness. ↗

— Marion Woodman

#food #longing #love #sweetness #sweets

Hunger of the heart is much stronger than hunger for food. ↗

— Amanda Comer

#food #heart #hunger #longing #food

There’s a penis in my penne pasta. It’s my penis, but that doesn’t mean it belongs there.
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— Jarod Kintz

#belonging #belongs #food #pasta #penis