Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one… — Rod Taylor Copy Share Image
“Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“(1) Autonomy—the desire to direct our own lives (2) Mastery—the urge to make progress and get better at something that matters (3)… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
“no matter how good things get in this world, it’s all Egypt! There will never be enough gold chains, fine linen, praise,… — Voddie Baucham Jr Copy Share Image
I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing -… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. I remember that yearning,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for… — Galt Niederhoffer 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You make concessions when you're married a long time that you don't believe you'll ever make when you're beginning. You say to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me, If only your heart ever, craves for me or… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“How peaceful it was, with the light evening breeze stirring the small leaves of the grapevine that clustered around the electric bulb,… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“Beyond his volition, Vane's gaze lowered to her lips, to the soft rose-tinted curves he now knew so well. Their shape was… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
“Addictions, even as they resemble normal human yearnings, are more about desire than attainment. In the addicted mode, the emotional charge is… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning. — Hafez Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Since I was a child, I was yearning to learn about percussion because that's what I loved. — Jain Copy Share Image
“Christmas has the waiting heart, often anxious for temporal desires, yearning for Jesus' presence above all.” — Allene vanOirschot Copy Share Image
“I can't tell whether a revived man would appreciate his second chance or yearn for the stolen serenity.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“No one is mocked with the yearning for that which they have no ability to attain.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
