Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was… — Faith Hill Copy Share Image
How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
“Was I tapping into a universal yearning for God? Did I have a chemical imbalance? Or did I just need to get… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“. . .in your light, had I learned to love, here in your beauty, could I speak knowing of this space close… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Well I know Gyuri [the familiar diminutive of Georg or György], that human beings are unapproachable, that their souls are as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Finn leaped from his horse to greet Enna, and she entwined herself into him, their arms around each other, their faces close.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and… — Thomas A. Edison 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
In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and… — Peter Straub 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
“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
“And now I lost my last treasure: the dreaming. For nothing in the dreams took the place of the human warmth I… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way, there develops within the soul a yearning that can no longer be ignored, a craving for the great… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it.… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“He turned his eyes to the skyline as was his wont. As he gazed at the still point of the universe, at… — T. Afsin Copy Share Image
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret." - from "Dimpellumpzki” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“If i live on longer, shall i again, i wonder, yearn for these days ? The world that i once saw as… — pictures of the heart Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Copy Share Image
There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Yearning is inseparable from love, and since once doesn't have the object of love immediately, one has not fallen in the embrace… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To her who loved the… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Oh, do you understand what I mean? Have you ever felt that about the Moon? Have you ever ached with the sheer… — James Lusarde Copy Share Image
Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning,… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Minimalism had to be born, not out of a mere spur-of-the-moment idea or yearning for a new lifestyle, but from an earnest… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image