Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah!… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Along with the yearning that came from some deep part of her, that was selfless and exalted, Thea had a hard kind… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“When the universe was young, it took a breath, then sighed with a longing so deep, so ancient, that it stole God’s… — Kate Belle Copy Share Image
To awaken a new longing for holiness: this is the great pastoral challenge that we have before us, if we want to… — Crescenzio Sepe Copy Share Image
In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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
“The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“And in the depth of her eyes were all these years—seasons they’d known, paths they’d trod. Slowly he entered her again. Everything… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Theres a wideness in Gods mercy I cannot find in my own And He keeps His fire burning To melt this heart… — Rich Mullins 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
“Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It happens so seldom; I must catch and keep this slender yearning, a rare beetle in a jam-jar trap. But mustering will… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our world can be moved Godward only by leaders who have shared to a deep degree the heartbreak as He looks in… — Wesley L Duewel Copy Share Image
“Oh Moon, sweet, sweet Moon, I want to be naked on you. I want to be like a flower growing on your… — James Lusarde Copy Share Image
Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
Mythopoeia has taken off in the Indian diaspora because there has been a change in readership from a mature audience to a… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me.… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Every moment in your life is unique. You will never have two alike... Never. This is the science of living: When you… — Prem Rawat Copy Share Image
Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest.… — Karen Barad Copy Share Image
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to… — Vanessa L Ochs Copy Share Image
“The feeling, the irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
“FOR THREE NIGHTS in a row, Dilly has dreamed of Gabriel, a look of yearning on his face, the clothes hanging off… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“that I thought of you—of the air that slipped between the strands of your hair, and blue stones in my hand, before… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image