It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path. — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“There were so many things mingled in his expression--yearning, disappointment, and yes, love.” — Claire Cross Copy Share Image
“A friend... sort of. Ren watches me like I'm a cookie jar he wouldn't mind being caught with his hands in.” — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.” — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
“Each has something hidden in his breast. In youthful days that are yet transparent. Yearning... comes softly. Love announces its coming haltingly,… — Moto Hagio 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
[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Unbending never ending tablets of time, record all the yearning. Unfearing all appearing message divine, eases the burning. — The Beach Boys Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him.… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“His head moved down, his mouth taking hers in a kiss that held the passion of a thousand years as his body… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“You make concessions when you're married a long time that you don't believe you'll ever make when you're beginning. You say to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I couldn't help but suspect something he'd seen or encountered had changed his view of what had happened between them. It had… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a prison, that house on the hill has always been my home. I've spent my life yearning toward… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back… — Rumi Copy Share Image