Yearn Quotes
193 Yearn quotes by 165 unique authors
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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
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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
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When you yearn for God with intensity, He will come to you.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Family is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves.
— Laura Ramirez
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as…
— Hugh Mackay
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Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.
— William Lashner
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This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbar
— Yasmin Mogahed
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The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.
— Billy Graham
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Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence…
— Helen Keller
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It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.
— Nicole Kidman
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Life is so very short. Do now what you yearn to do in your life. You do not have to 'quit your day job' in…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to…
— Gail Godwin
Who Wrote These Yearn Quotes
165 authors contributed a total of 193 Yearn Quotes, led by these top contributors: