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#longing

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[I]t doesn’t matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don’t know who you are, or if you’ve forgotten or misplaced her, then you’ll always feel as if you don’t belong. Anywhere. (xiii)


Sarah Breathnach


#life #love #place #self-awareness #self-knowledge

Through creativity, we are seamlessly connected and sustained as we pull back the veil, revealing beneath our differences and distinctive characteristics, human expression and the human experience are universal. It is the greatness of this experience that connects us together by infinite invisible threads strewn across the globe. This is my responsibility, passion and desire as an artist—my soul purpose.


Brian Bowers


#human-nature #humanity #longing #love #philosophy-of-life

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.


Kazuo Ishiguro


#chaos #civilization #destruction #fear #insecurity

The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things are precisely what language does not speak about. Language is a natural act which implies belonging. He who exists, speaks. He who does not speak, does not exist. He has no place in the world. The Huichol language is Huichol to the same degree as the Huichol earth, the Huichol sky, religion, tattooing, dress, the peyoteros' hat. It is not enough to pronounce the syllables of the Huichol language to be Huichol. That is obvious.


J.M.G. Le Clézio


#belonging #culture #language #other #nature

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.


Becca Fitzpatrick


#crescendo #hush-hush #longing #lust #nora-grey

Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.


Michelle Tea


#emotion #longing #love #melancholy #sobriety

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.


Bodhidharma


#deluded #longing #people #seeking #something

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#longing #minds #nature #our #planted

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.


Thomas Jefferson


#begins #cast #conduct #eye #his

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.


Xun Zi


#devotion #feelings #longing #sacrifices






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