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| ... men aldrig såg jag i en blick en större längtan lagd | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Att undertrycka en längtan är att undertrycka en gudomlig impuls | Hazrat Inayat Khan |
| Av alla de nådegåvor vi människor utrustats med, är det ingen som ger så mycket som vår förmåga att längta. Inget är ouppnåeligt eller otillgängligt för vår längtan. | Karen Ewald |
| Bara de tama fåglarna har en längtan. De vilda flyger. | Elmer Diktonius (1896-1961) |
| Bara det att ha ett ställe att längta till är ett värde i livet. | Barbra Ring (1870-1955) |
| Hemligheten med lycka är att beundra utan begär. | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) |
| I tider som nu, än i denna timme river en längtan i mitt bröst. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Längtan - å, det är inte det värsta. Allt skönt och gott i en grönskar av den. | Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) |
| Längtan bär en människa halva vägen. | Islandsk Ordtak |
| Längtan och hopp puttar oss mot framtiden. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Längtan ut är inte så stark som längtan hem. | Peter Egge (1869-1959) |
| Längtan är en mäktig källa som kan användas till att få saker att hända. | Marcia Wieder |
| Längtan är när man är helt kär i nånting som ännu inte är. Längtan är väntan på de där ögonblicken när man bara är - och man bara är där man är. | Elsa Persson |
| Må de få komma sammanmed hjärtans fröjd och gammansom längta till varann. | Ordspråk från Sverige |
| När man är ung längtar man ut; när man är gammal längtar man hem. | Cora Sandel |
| Om du verkligen längtar efter något, ha modet att satsa allt för att uppnå det. | Brendan Francis |
| Själva längtan är beviset på att det vi längtar efter finns. | Karen Blixen (1885-1962) |
| Vad är längtan? En påminnelse om saker man ännu inte har upplevt... | Heljar Mjoen |
| Vi är alla vår egen längtan. | Ferdinand Finne (1910-1999) |
| Desire is the thing you want in incipiency. | H. Emilie Cady |
| Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment | Marsha Sinetar |
| When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve | Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) |
| Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you | Stephen Vizinczey |
| A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. | Swami Sivananda (1887-1963) |
| It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men | Walter J. Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. | Mario Andretti (1940-) |
| Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. | James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) |
| Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on. | Tom Morris |
| The desire to know is natural to good men. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. | Brendan Francis |
| It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men | Walter J. Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. | Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) |
| I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment | Marsha Sinetar |
| A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. | Horace Mann (1796-1859) |
| Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| Desire is the very essence of man | Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| All human activity is prompted by desire | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it. | Bruce Springsteen (1949-) |
| If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desire not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, we are like ignorant children who want to continue making mud pies in a slum because we cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a vacation at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. | François Rabelais (1490-1553) |
| In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. | Jane Smiley (1949-) |
| A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires | John Cleese (1939-) |
| The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
| I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
| But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize. Their hearts desire, their dream....But the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted. | Neil Gaiman (1960-) |
| Since in a net I seek to hold the wind. | Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough. | Tom Krause (1934-) |
| Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Hva er lengsel? En slags erindring om ting man ennå ikke har opplevet . | Heljar Mjøen |
| Kast ikke loss fra dine lengsler - for hva er vi uten lengslene våre? | Amos Oz (1939-) |
| Lengsel - å, den er ikke det verste. Alt skjønt og godt i en eng gror i le av den. | Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) |
| Når man er ung, lengter man ut, når man er gammel, lengter man hjem. | Cora Sandel |