"But what are wishes, compared with longings?"

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Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Desire Quotes #Wish Quotes #Longing Quotes

“The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.”
“The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part.”

Source : Source: www.archdaily.com
“My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.”
“I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.”

Source : Beatrix Potter (1982). “Beatrix Potter's Americans: selected letters”
“If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.”
“The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.”
“Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.”
“Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breedâ€”an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly roams our materialistic world and shows us that even here, even now, there is hope for our soul.”

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