“The thing you are passionate about is not random; it stems from an inner yearning. Don’t ignore it or allow others to… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“It was one of those summers you’re nostalgic for even before it passes. Pale, bled skies. Thunderstorms in the night. Sour-smelling dawns.… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the… — Franz Kafka 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
“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
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
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
“The way a love letter longs to be read I long for you. The way the poor Kane longs for his sled… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“A sudden yearning to hold Artagan close overtakes me, to smell the scent of his skin and run my hands through his… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“My heart has a way of moving, only, for those I can never be with.. Longing for things that might only occur… — Sarah Adel Copy Share Image
“A beast is just what you want. A big, dark medieval brute to throw you to the ground, tear the clothes from… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“They were very bitter tears: everybody in the world seemed so hard and unkind to Maggie: there was no indulgence, no fondness,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Longing on a large scale is what makes history. This is just a kid with a local yearning but he is part… — Don Delillo Underworld Copy Share Image
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
While the fictional realm as such allows for the obstacles of present-day politics to be altered, neglected, and negotiated at will, sci-fi… — Larissa Sansour 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
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love. — Jack Vance 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
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
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
“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
The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning. — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“A good story, well told, makes you realize you were yearning for something you had no name for, something you didn’t even… — F.S. Michaels Copy Share Image
I look for that earnest yearning in talent, you may not be the best at what you do, but if you have… — Shakti Mohan Copy Share Image
If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
As with other movements of the spirit, simplicity can be both a cause and an effect. As a spiritual path develops, so… — Jennifer Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“He never wanted to see that look of disppointment in her eyes again, yet he couldn't allow himself to be crushed under… — Frank Lee Raw Honey Copy Share Image
