#yearning

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#waiting #yearning #faith

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#become #beliefs #different #different beliefs #different people

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#beauty #desire #elegance #fresh #innovative

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#deep #innermost #loneliness #lost #powerful

I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#after #comes #cry #day #did

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. ↗

— Helen Keller

#among #breeze #flowers #i #just

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body. ↗

— Lucy Stone

#body #clothing #devoted #did #feeding

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ↗

— Edward Thomas

#yearning #love

Every time the wind blows I think of her. I wonder if I could generate electricity off my yearning. Maybe a mind wind farm of some kind. Hopefully I could provide enough power for all the lonely people in my bathtub to stay warm. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#electricity #funny #humor #lonely #power

Why is love intensified by absence? ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#yearning #love