“The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To her who loved the… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Minimalism had to be born, not out of a mere spur-of-the-moment idea or yearning for a new lifestyle, but from an earnest… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning,… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
“. . .in your light, had I learned to love, here in your beauty, could I speak knowing of this space close… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah!… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Along with the yearning that came from some deep part of her, that was selfless and exalted, Thea had a hard kind… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
My godchild Zoe, age 6, suddenly said: "Can you describe what romance is?" I talked about wooing, and yearning, and she sighed… — Sark Copy Share Image
“Now discontent nibbled at him - not painfully, but constantly. Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A feeling struck me one fine day that people call ‘love’, Before that my life was empty, all I had was loneliness… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
There is a deeper truth expressed in the unity of the United States. Implicate in the union of our country is the… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“I used to cry to the stars in the sky and begged them to have mercy on me cause I longed for… — Magdalena Ganowska Copy Share Image
Let no one pray that they know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Our first kiss, the first touch of our heating lips, the yearning reciprocating from both sides, I was lost in everything. But… — Delicious David Copy Share Image
“Was I tapping into a universal yearning for God? Did I have a chemical imbalance? Or did I just need to get… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Yearning is inseparable from love, and since once doesn't have the object of love immediately, one has not fallen in the embrace… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
“If i live on longer, shall i again, i wonder, yearn for these days ? The world that i once saw as… — pictures of the heart Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Copy Share Image
“Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret." - from "Dimpellumpzki” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so… — Barbara Lazear Ascher Copy Share Image
The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
“Are we alike In that in-betweenness? Can he see, When I smile my blue eyes back At his brown ones, The country-city-woman-girl… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one's grasp just when you want to hold onto them for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In fact, this could be the most important thing we ever learn about God– that he yearns for relationship with us... We… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community. — George Will Copy Share Image
