Yearn Quotes

193 quotes by 165 authors

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible. — Jacqueline Novogratz
Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and… — Charles de Saint-Evremond
I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something… — Herbert Hoover
All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive. — John Maeda
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial… — Sam Keen
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown… — Giorgos Seferis
Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we… — Paulo Coelho
When you yearn for God with intensity, He will come to you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear… — Thomas Malory
I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set — J. Cole
The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way we have been… — Victor Davis Hanson
It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that,… — Robert A. Heinlein
It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it,… — Leila Aboulela
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
Family is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves. — Laura Ramirez
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity — Robert Browning
One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what… — Alain de Botton
I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry… — Jon Foreman
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

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165 authors contributed a total of 193 Yearn Quotes, led by these top contributors: