She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“I suppose I've always had a yearning, in spite of the fact that I am temperamentally unsuited to the role in every… — Tana French Copy Share Image
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to… — Hall Caine Copy Share Image
“It's funny. Looking back, none of it seems to matter now, those moments of yearning, craving to belong with people I thought… — Rebecca Harris Copy Share Image
“The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“There was more, he was sure. He could feel it. Something deeper. More profound. More worthy. More likeable. It was like a… — Alan McCluskey Copy Share Image
Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality.… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth, Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume: The wicked work… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“He was so stark and male and beautiful that she hungered for him. Physically, to be sure. But also from someplace even… — Dorien Kelly Copy Share Image
I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students… — Susan Jane Gilman Copy Share Image
I think I grew up a bit quickly. I wish I was younger than I am in my head. I feel like… — Elena Tonra Copy Share Image
Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar,… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of… — Overstreet Copy Share Image
The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
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