So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.
Soul is that part of you that longs for harmony and cooperation and sharing and reverence for life. When you make decisions that align you with those values, you align your personality with your soul. It's that simple to understand. Now to do it, in my experience, is hard.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by
We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.
With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
The One who saved your soul longs to remake your heart. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus. Perhaps in seeing Him, we will see what we can become!
Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.
The real in me longs for peace. The unreal in me longs for power.
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.
I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that’s best in all of creation, a spirit who knows the great potential of each planet as well as each person, and little by little will love us into being more than we ever dreamed possible. That loving spirit would rather die than give up on any one of us.