Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me — Laura Hillenbrand
My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good. — Albert Rosenfeld
There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm… — Dorothy Draper
I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me. — Mary McLeod Bethune
Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning… — Ellen DeGeneres
Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or another but against… — Marilyn Ferguson
The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning. — David Quammen
It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and… — Unknown Author
If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether… — Jerry Bridges
Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul. — Yehudi Menuhin
And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that… — Doreen Valiente
I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of… — Frank W. Boreham
I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University,… — Susan Jane Gilman
What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union. — Sharon Salzberg
If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered. — Julia Cameron
God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful… — Sam Storms
Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience our sexuality on… — Lewis B. Smedes
Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon… — Mary Webb
The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt… — Jerry Bridges
I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others,… — Oswald Chambers
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving… — Harry Mathews
We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. — Daniel Libeskind
Learn the richness of solitude & quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard. — Susan Jeffers
Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change… — Sue Monk Kidd

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