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Happiness is the gap between loving and longing. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Love is the essence of life. Love is the universal language of all creation. Love is the eternal desire. Love is the life's flower with fragrance to share. So feel the longing for love and being beloved. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.	added by anonymous 9 years ago
This is the season in Iowa, so everyone looks hard at visitors to the state, iowa Democrats are eager for this caucus season to begin. So his appearance is going to fuel that longing by the part of Iowa Democrats for the discussion to begin. – Terri Goodman	Found on CNN 9 years ago
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death. – Cesare Pavese	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat – Robert Collier	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love. – Khalil Gibran	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world -- to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms. – Wilhelm von Humboldt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence. – Wilhelm von Humboldt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium. – Milan Kundera	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Consider, and you will find that almost all the transactions of the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for consulship?yet all these passed away, and are nowhere. – M Aurelius	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. – Orison Swett Marden	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. – Bertrand Russell, Autobiography	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return. – Agatha Christie	added by anonymous 13 years ago
...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line." – Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. – Malcolm Muggeridge	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing. – Sophie Kerr	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment. – Malcolm Muggeridge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some people never say the words 'I love you' It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told. – Paul Simon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Happiness is the gap between loving and longing.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Love is the essence of life. Love is the universal language of all creation. Love is the eternal desire. Love is the life's flower with fragrance to share. So feel the longing for love and being beloved.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

This is the season in Iowa, so everyone looks hard at visitors to the state, iowa Democrats are eager for this caucus season to begin. So his appearance is going to fuel that longing by the part of Iowa Democrats for the discussion to begin.

– Terri Goodman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

– Cesare Pavese

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat

– Robert Collier

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

– Khalil Gibran

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world -- to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

– Wilhelm von Humboldt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

– Wilhelm von Humboldt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.

– Milan Kundera

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Consider, and you will find that almost all the transactions of the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for consulship?yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

– M Aurelius

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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

– Orison Swett Marden

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

– Bertrand Russell, Autobiography

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

– Agatha Christie

added by anonymous
13 years ago

...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."

– Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

– Malcolm Muggeridge

added by anonymous
13 years ago

In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

– Albert Einstein