Yearning Quotes
Yearning Quote of the day
Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.
If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
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 and make believe.
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.
My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.
Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.
What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.
I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.
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 solution. They aren't looking within.
A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.
People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.
We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
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 life apart from Him?
But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
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 our faith in Christ is genuine.
Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.
In this new era of social media the rules of the road have changed significantly, yet the basic yearning for true connectivity and love have not.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.
Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.
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 yearning.
What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.
The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.
Boy, you're like a horse. Just now sated with seed, You've come back to my stable, Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow, An icy spring, shady groves.
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.
The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.
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 feel these emotions in their universality.