Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and… — John Keats
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now. — Henry Ward Beecher
We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that… — Marianne Williamson
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the… — Adyashanti
Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships,… — Jean Vanier
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty. — Helena Christensen
It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united. — Epictetus
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
Every moment in your life is unique. You will never have two alike... Never. This is the science of living: When you begin to appreciate… — Prem Rawat
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we… — Harry Allen Overstreet
You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing… — Rainer Maria Rilke
One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired. — Unknown Author
Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are. — Ram Dass
...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes at the bit… — Gregory of Nazianzus
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. — Israel Shenker
I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed. — Boyd K. Packer
Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the… — Carl Jung
Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself. — Adyashanti
The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too… — Russell M. Nelson

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