"Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left."

Nostalgia, Home, Truth, Life, Regret

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"Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left."

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"The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Nostalgia, Memory, Past, Thought, Emotion

"When you don't know where to start,just go to a place you miss so much."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Nostalgia, Regret, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational

"I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Nostalgia, Refugee, Home, Hiraeth, Yearning

"We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Nostalgia, Youth, Memory, Desire

"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Nostalgia, Longing, Change, Spring

"When I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the sidewalk one December listening to the Christmas bells - I've never forgotten that moment..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Nostalgia, Memory, Childhood, Christmas, Bells

"Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Nostalgia, Childhood, Memory, Emotion, Wonder

"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Nostalgia, Happiness, Memory, Time, Reflection

"What did Saturday's used to taste like? Like eggs and fried ham and the bitter smell of hair in heavy rollers. Like long quiet hours and making up after a fight. Like ointment and bruising. Like waiting, especially, for something - anything - to happen."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Nostalgia, Memory, Love, Waiting

"When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Nostalgia, History, Regret, Truth, Wisdom

Explore more quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

"God chose to deliberately venture into and intentionally occupy depths far below and infinitely beyond that which any human has ever descended, and then to raise Himself back up to glory from those horridly dark places. And I pray that we never miss the fact that Christmas is God's invitation for us to join Him in the rising."

Faith

"The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take 'nothing' and imagine 'something' from 'nothing.' And that is God."

Creation

"If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as impoverished as I have now found myself."

Generosity

"With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way."

Success

"Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I'm touching, so I'd better start paying attention to what I'm touching."

Influence

"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."

Doubt

"I don't necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don't wait around for an invitation to stand back up either."

Resilience

"Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb."

Success

"If we limit love to being nothing more than a feeling, we have no real feeling for what love is."

Love

"In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way."

Time