Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community. — George Will Copy Share Image
What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho'… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Loving you is no more a beautiful memory, but now just a pain, I cry and weep every time I walk down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love… — Sarah Doudney 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
“But the walls of my resolve mortared with stubbornness have been breached by circumstances I cannot handle alone.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others,… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In… — Gerald May 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
Boy, you're like a horse. Just now sated with seed, You've come back to my stable, Yearning for a good rider, fine… — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
I'm not any different than anybody else. But I do see a world, for me, that's getting better and better, not worse… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance. — Jack Nicholson 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 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
To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
