"Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one."
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"That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity."
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"For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster."
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"If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong."
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"My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called."
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"One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired."
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"He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream."
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"Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn."
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"Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them."
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"Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing."
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"What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life."
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"The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood."
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"The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world."
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"I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing."
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"And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing."
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"There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better."
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"We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing."
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