#longing

He lived to near the things he loved to seem poetical. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#love #passion #poetry #love

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#home #men

She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that's why she liked him-- because he just thought she was crazy. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#belonging-to-someone #boy-meets-girl #craziness #crazy #heartwarming

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#always #intense #longing #more #something

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves. ↗

— Phyllis George

#belonging #connect #crafts #create #express

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#distorted #features #his #imaginative #man

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

— Orison Swett Marden

#creator #given #longing #which #you

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#criticize #designers #directors #games #i

I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#any #because #desire #feminine #huge

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#among #become #cannot #claim #disputes