“Remember when we were children and life was simple; how I yearn to return to those days.” — A.H. Septimius Copy Share Image
The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam. — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
“Yearning is a red-haired girl sitting on the hood of her silver sedan, reading about Marilyn Monroe.” — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
Listen as the wind blows From across the great divide Voices trapped in yearning Memories trapped in time — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“...that yearning inside you that seeks for fulfillment - does it still burn?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“The emptinesss was a hole that only he could fill. He was the relief. It pulled from every direction, this yearning for… — Jessica Therrien Copy Share Image
“The problem was that the only reality he could see what a nut-brown nymph who could whisper like a song and move… — Frank Lee Raw Honey Copy Share Image
Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard,… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery:… — Doreen Valiente 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
Whoever has given a little thought to God even a momentary yearning for Him that desire shall ultimately save them — Regina Malabago Copy Share Image
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance… — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their… — Dante Alighieri 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
“This yearning for new and distant scenes, this craving for freedom, release, forgetfulness -- they were he admitted to himself, an impulse… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes 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
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher inherited the sick man of Europe in 1979 and transformed it into a powerhouse. When she left office, it was… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“Inconstancy of every second punishes me. The wind, the rain, the clouds, the days, I try to grasp the hours but they… — Ansul Noor Copy Share Image
“When I was in junior high, I used to think I would turn out to be one of the guys, and boys… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“We—all of us—want to feel special. We want to feel the glory that shines on us when we reach beyond our boundaries… — J.E. Leigh Copy Share Image
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The world does not have a voice of its own. It can't tell you what it wants, what it needs. But it's… — Bray Wyatt Copy Share Image
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.” — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“Yearning for a better, brighter, more beautiful and sensitive life is borne in pain.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All disease, disorder and addictions stem from the yearning to reunite with one’s soul.” — Gerard Armond Powell Copy Share Image
People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about. — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
It's not a case of missing the past, it's the constant yearning for it, I need it back. — Anonymous Copy Share Image