Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup. — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
“Yearning hurts, and what release may come of it feels much like death.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“...at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man’s life, but the end of a book of man, the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Minimalism had to be born, not out of a mere spur-of-the-moment idea or yearning for a new lifestyle, but from an earnest… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“My heart has a way of moving, only, for those I can never be with.. Longing for things that might only occur… — Sarah Adel 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
In a powerful, divine dream, I saw 50 million people on a "Royal Journey of Hope" who were looking and yearning for… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks.… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
I am for peace and all kinds of ways because the total reality is that you never quite, at least in my… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“And there came to him a feeling which he had often had before in many different places--that he himself was a part… — Earnest Poole Copy Share Image
“And you who seek to know Me, know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery:… — Starhawk 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
“If the heart of Africa remained elusive, my search for it had brought me closer to understanding myself and other human beings.… — Maya Angelou 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 was over forty years old and I felt like I hadn’t been born yet. I had spent my whole life studying… — Steve Justice Copy Share Image
“It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“ Time Does Not Bring Relief Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Woe to the heart of this one, the one who feels his touch when she sleeps and craves his voice in her… — Kristiana Evans Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“the sapphire depth of my own love...startles and warms and wounds my soul.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I always had this yearning to give and help and make people feel better. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. — Plato Copy Share Image
People are always yearning for a bigger story to be part of, it's not enough to live our own private lives. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
