#longing

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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.


Khalil Gibran


#came #children #daughters #itself #life

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.


Simon Greenleaf


#attribute #belonging #character #clothes #endeavors

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.


Gina Barreca


#body #body shop #improve #longing #looks

If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.


Anne Gracie


#leave #longing #love #romance #sweet

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.


C.S. Lewis


#love

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.


William Shakespeare


#love #love

It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene,- not of his repulse and rejection the day before but the looks, the actions of the day before that. He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them, -almost sick with longing for that one half-hour-that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his-to come once again.


Elizabeth Gaskell


#love #love

Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!


Olive Higgins Prouty


#loss #love #moon #stars #love

My beloved has arrived, but rather than greeting him, All I can do is bite the corner of my apron with a blank expression- What an awkward woman am I. My heart has longed for him as hugely and openly as a full moon But instead I narrow my eyes, and my glance to him Is sharp and narrow as the crescent moon. But then, I'm not the only one who behaves this way. My mother and my mother's mother were as silly and stumbling as I am when they were girls... Still, the love from my heart is overflowing, As bright and crimson as the heated metal in a blacksmith's forge.


Kim Dong Hwa


#longing #love #mothers #mothers-and-daughters #poetry

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.


Homer


#greece #longing #love #lovers #love