"Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?"

-- Li-Young Lee

#Longing Quotes

“No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon principles of benevolence... the cosmos remains always beautiful and profoundly interesting in every corner-and if I had as many lives as a cat I would leave no corner unexplored.”
“Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.”
“I think capitalism will survive, because no attractive alternatives exist now”
“If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple.”
“No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.”
“I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.”
“Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.”
“Don't worry about getting it right. Just get it started.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 22, 2017

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