“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
I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose,… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
A life without love is a waste. 'Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?', don't ask yourself this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“His yearning for new and faraway places, his desire for freedom, relief and oblivion was as he admitted to himself, an urge… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“All those films in which the woman doesn't get her man, those films of yearning unsatisfied, hearts unappeased. You like them; I've… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I voluntarily left my lovers, since I felt that I am no more wanted, I left because their heart likes separation. of… — MoulaY AbdallaH Boulaasair Copy Share Image
The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
The beloved of Allah are the perfume of Allah upon this world, but only the true, sincere believers have noses to smell… — Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi Copy Share Image
I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
During this same year of 1896 another desire began to grow in me. I began to feel an ever greater yearning to… — Gemma Galgani 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
“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
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
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
The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not… — Judith Viorst 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
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is… — Swami Vivekananda 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
Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning,… — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“All who seek to know Me, know this... All your seeking and yearning will be in vain unless you understand the Mystery… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image