Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every… — Mahatma Gandhi
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter
I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love. — Ram Dass
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before… — William Styron
The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like… — David Duval
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to… — Noam Chomsky
All of creation is alive and conscious, and all of creation deserves our burning, churning, yearning love. All of it. Not just the people and… — Rob Brezsny
Feelings of worth come when a woman follows the example of the Master. Her sense of infinite worth comes from her own Christlike yearning to… — Russell M. Nelson
I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith… — Marya Hornbacher
I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts. — Tom Hooper
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about. — Dan Pallotta
I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of… — E. O. Wilson
Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it… — Karen Barad
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. — Anais Nin
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex… — John Updike
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of… — Shirley Hufstedler
The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and… — Michael Hardt
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it… — Ben Okri
Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to… — Walt Disney
My godchild Zoe, age 6, suddenly said: "Can you describe what romance is?" I talked about wooing, and yearning, and she sighed and leaned back,… — Unknown Author
Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire… — BrenÃ© Brown
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time. — Charles Frazier
This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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