“What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.” PeopleKindStoriesKnowingColorLongingAncientFortitudeMigrationAncient HistoryDislocation Author:Isabel Wilkerson
“He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.” LittlesSchoolKnowingLongingCaringQuittingNot Caring Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .” WorldNeedsMindHeartHas BeensStillsShowsBodyTurnsPassionKnownKnowingFoolColdKingsLongingNew WorldStubbornSweetnessAcheExileBeggarRisenTreasonWild Passion Author:R. S. Thomas
“Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.” WorldWantSpiritPoetrySpeakSilencePrinciplesCreativityKnowingPoetExpressionRelationLongingBusyInternalsPoeticMysticalBentFruitionEmanateEnigmaticMystical Experiences Author:Jacques Maritain
“The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.” KnowsChildrenDoeArtJoyValuesUnderstandingMoralCreativeKnowingTeacherExpressionWasteCapableIntellectualAskingLongingAppreciationValuableSupremeArtisticQuestioningPupilsImpartAsking QuestionsValuable ThingsCreative ExpressionKnowledge And Understanding Author:Albert Einstein
“The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for reunion with wholeness. It's the call of your soul urging you to return to your own path and purpose. It's the force of evolution driving you home. Do not try to deny or override your divine discontent. Heed its call. Knowing "this can't be it" implies that somewhere inside you, you DO know what IS it.” KnowsTryingSoulSelfFeelingsHomeFormPurposeForcePrayerPowerfulKnowingPathDivineReturnEvolutionLongingDenyDrivingYour SoulPurpose Of LifeAgonyWholenessDiscontentVery PowerfulHeedReunion Author:Alan Cohen
“You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.” WorldPerfectKnowingIgnoranceOppositesLongingWorthyDuesContradictionLovable Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.” TryingSaidFeelingsArtistLeftKnowingColorSweetTasteLongingPainfulFrustrationCaptureFragileGestures Author:Alan Alda
“Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.” CharacterFeelingsHomeMightCareFatherGivenFamilyKnowingMissingOughtConcernLettersLongingTendernessNot KnowingAdvise Author:John Adams