Yearning Quotes

• 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.

  Stephanie Laurens

  Heart, Romance, Needs

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• Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

  Adyashanti

  Source

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• There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.

  Ralph Marston

  Purpose, World, Knows

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• The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Creativity, Soul, Desire

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• Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

  John of the Cross

  Hurt, Order, Needs

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• The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hope, Hurt, Regret

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

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• You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Choices

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• There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.75, Booklassic

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• When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Anxiety, Soul, Feelings

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• How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.

  Sylvia Plath

  Giving, Soul, Needs

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.21, Anchor

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• So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth. It's a projection of the ultimate innocence and purity. That's why it's hard to see a dog in its dogness. That's why, when some harm comes to a dog, it's much harder for an audience to deal with that, more so than dealing with harm that comes to a child or anything human.

  Todd Solondz

  Dream, Dog, Children

  "'Wiener-Dog': Director Todd Solondz Explains Why It Took a Few Years to Make This Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2016.

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• In order to know how to talk, you have to know what to say. In order to know what to say, you have to get in touch with those deep-inside-of-you thoughts, feelings, needs, and yearnings. These are the parts of you that must be communicated if you are going to be known.

  Neil Clark Warren

  Order, Feelings, Needs

  Neil Clark Warren (1998). “Learning to Live with the Love of Your Life... and Loving It”, Focus on the Family Pub

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• So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Maturity, Youth, Discarded

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• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

  Jimmy Carter

  Beautiful, Dream, America

  Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976

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• Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

  John Steinbeck

  Doe, Fields, Hunger

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.59, Penguin

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• 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.

  Gail Godwin

  Long, Forward Motion, Found

  Gail Godwin (1985). “The finishing school”, Viking Pr

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• The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Greek, Suffering

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• Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Progress, Path, Impossible

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• How we need another soul to cling to.

  Sylvia Plath

  Loneliness, Soul, Needs

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.46, Anchor

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• Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

  Johan Huizinga

  Depression, Beautiful, Confusing

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• The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.

  Khalil Gibran

  Flower, Passion, Light

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• Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, Heart, Contentment

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• A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

  Lillian Gish

  Happy Life, Earning, Life Is

  Lillian Gish (1969). “The Movies, Mr. Grifith, and Me”

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  Emma Lazarus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tired

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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