Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning — Menachem Mendel Schneerson Copy Share Image
About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.” — Cynthia Bourgeault Copy Share Image
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“The yearning self is an empty vessel – fill it with knowledge and you may find what you seek!!” — Iyathurai Aingaratheepan Copy Share Image
“And a while later: 'It is a strange sort of pain.' Softly. 'To die of yearning for something you'll never experience.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
“But the walls of my resolve mortared with stubbornness have been breached by circumstances I cannot handle alone.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
“She didn’t care if the world thought she was pretty. All she wanted was that special someone to reach beyond the surface… — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
“We are all made up of yearning and light, searching for a way out, afraid we will be shut in or cut… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho'… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
“The ocean exerts an inexorable pull over sea people wherever they are-in a bright-lit, inland city or the dead center of a… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I've not done any for a good long while now. I think it was four… — Agyness Deyn Copy Share Image
Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a prison, that house on the hill has always been my home. I've spent my life yearning toward… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“We—all of us—want to feel special. We want to feel the glory that shines on us when we reach beyond our boundaries… — J.E. Leigh Copy Share Image
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The world does not have a voice of its own. It can't tell you what it wants, what it needs. But it's… — Bray Wyatt Copy Share Image
“Do in after life the freshness and light-heartedness, the craving for love and for strength of faith, ever return which we experience… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
“Yearning hurts, and what release may come of it feels much like death.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup. — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
