I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.John Burroughs
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.Khalil Gibran
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.Fernando Pessoa
I've lived in small rooms, flats, growing plants in pots on window sills. I'd have liked to have had a full-fledged garden with all kinds of flowers and plants. I've never had enough money to buy a big enough garden space.Ruskin Bond
I am so longing to be domestic, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.Eve Best
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.A. A. Milne
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.Wilbur Wright
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.E.W. Howe
Reverie is not a mind gone wandering; it is a soul reaching out for something beyond the present.Harriet Beecher Stowe