A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“The yearning self is an empty vessel – fill it with knowledge and you may find what you seek!!” — Iyathurai Aingaratheepan Copy Share Image
When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning — Menachem Mendel Schneerson Copy Share Image
About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on,… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was… — Faith Hill Copy Share Image
“We’re all the same under our skin, aren’t we? We’re all wanting things we don’t understand. Things we can’t even name. The… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I found a nice spot in boxing. Starting to develop a love for it, a like for it, and a yearning to… — Greg Hardy Copy Share Image
In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim 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
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
He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“The way a love letter longs to be read I long for you. The way the poor Kane longs for his sled… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“A sudden yearning to hold Artagan close overtakes me, to smell the scent of his skin and run my hands through his… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
“The seeking of a lover to embody these words; the pining for a love that will be unconditional; the search for a… — Daniel Bergner Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why I lived and she not. She was better than I, sweeter and kinder. It should have been me.”… — Josie Litton 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
“Do in after life the freshness and light-heartedness, the craving for love and for strength of faith, ever return which we experience… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.” — Cynthia Bourgeault Copy Share Image
