We Yearn Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

In those times we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will… — Jim Stovall
When we invite the Holy Ghost to fill our minds with light and knowledge, He "quickens" us, that is to say, enlightens and enlivens the… — Keith K. Hilbig
Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for." — Saint Augustine
When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so… — Simon Van Booy
Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean… — Stasi Eldredge
We have so much, yet many Americans feel dissatisfied. Somehow the full table, symbol of abundance to the pilgrims, is not enough. We yearn for… — Jennifer James
The knowledge which we seek, the answers for which we yearn, and the strength which we desire today to meet the challenges of a complex… — Thomas S. Monson
There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps… — Jesse Browner
Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens… — Simone Weil
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. — Mignon McLaughlin
We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His… — Henry B. Eyring
We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for… — Dean Koontz
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is… — Jack Kerouac
Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead… — Milan Kundera
Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources.… — Alain de Botton
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we… — Robert Breault
What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Who Wrote These We Yearn Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 24 We Yearn Quotes as follows: