Yearning Quotes

391 quotes by 324 authors

Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing… — Richard J. Foster
Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to… — Henry David Thoreau
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in… — Clarence Darrow
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community. — George Will
Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son. — Boyd K. Packer
We must find a way to replace yearning for what life has withheld from us with gratitude for what we have been given. — Kent Nerburn
The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The… — Sarah Doudney
The beloved of Allah are the perfume of Allah upon this world, but only the true, sincere believers have noses to smell them. They smell… — Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi
Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever caused his heart… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'. — Hugh Mackay
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my… — John Green
The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not… — H. L. Mencken
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of… — Ruth Bernhard
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous… — Susan Sontag
When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth. — Sathya Sai Baba
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it,… — Henry David Thoreau
You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power — Zig Ziglar
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no… — Eric Hoffer
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell… — Umberto Eco

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