Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

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
To awaken a new longing for holiness: this is the great pastoral challenge that we have before us, if we want to be faithful to… — Unknown Author
To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday… — Pope Benedict XVI
Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in… — Pope Benedict XVI
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to… — Mark Twain
Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether… — Unknown Author
It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for… — Meryl Streep
If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a… — Russell Brand
I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings. — Patti Smith
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to… — Mary Ruefle
This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what we can to… — Marva Dawn

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