Yearns Quotes
62 quotes by 55 authors
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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence…
— Maya Angelou
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There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level…
— H. L. Mencken
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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
— Pope John Paul II
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If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from the remembrance of…
— Jean Klein
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Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.
— Eric Metaxas
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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover…
— John Berryman
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Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality…
— Anatole Broyard
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It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that…
— Jean Hegland
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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his…
— Freda Adler
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Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in…
— Brian Swimme
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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Now is the time to give me roses, not to keep them for my grave to come. Give them to me while my heart beats,…
— Mzwakhe Mbuli
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The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for…
— Shana Alexander
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Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather…
— Laozi
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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
— Mark Twain
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I have seen faith rise 'mountain high' when the truth of God's present love and compassion begins to dawn upon the minds and hearts of…
— F. F. Bosworth
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Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers
— Karen Barad
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The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the…
— Herman Bavinck
Who Wrote These Yearns Quotes
55 authors contributed a total of 62 Yearns Quotes, led by these top contributors: