The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, yearning with my pals to be a track star, one of our heroes was Bruce Jenner. He… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes,… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love… — Sarah Doudney Copy Share Image
“What I realized about the dreamland, however, was the power it once held simply by being withheld from me. It created yearning—and… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
“The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
A life without love is a waste. 'Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?', don't ask yourself this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose,… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
I'm not any different than anybody else. But I do see a world, for me, that's getting better and better, not worse… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
![“The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bb8/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_existence_the-essence-of-faith-is-the-idea-that-th_247786.png)
