There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it!… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a… — Ellen DeGeneres 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
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
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
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
Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There's a huge yearning in our culture for something more... it's being more in touch with God... and what we were created… — Kurt Warner 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
as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel… — Jonathan W. Galassi 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
There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Like a bird, Tasha sees acutely on the periphery, and for a moment, before fear sets in, this feels somewhat prophetic. The… — Emma Richler 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
I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image