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
“But the walls of my resolve mortared with stubbornness have been breached by circumstances I cannot handle alone.” — Susie Clevenger 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
“I begin to sense a desire building; A yearning for this place; a sense of will To remain here, the sparks of… — T.D. Otis 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
I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and… — Albert Einstein 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
Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to… — Hall Caine Copy Share Image
“I suppose I've always had a yearning, in spite of the fact that I am temperamentally unsuited to the role in every… — Tana French Copy Share Image
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Feelings of worth come when a woman follows the example of the Master. Her sense of infinite worth comes from her own… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“My earnest desire for you has brought me to a point, where the life I've imagined we shall have, seems like a… — A.D. Orbit Copy Share Image
One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real… — Julian Fellowes 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
“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Will I ever be done, transformed in the past tense, or will I always be transforming, better and better until I die?” — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a… — Gail Godwin 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
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
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us… — Edith Pearlman Copy Share Image
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Most people share a yearning to be something bigger than them. Something they can be excited about and something that will challenge… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
