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• I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Intellectual, Stronger

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• Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Riches, Longing

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• Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Lying, Mind

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• There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

  Helena Christensen

  Desire, Elegance, Timeless

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships, is different. But in each one there is a yearning for communion and belonging, but at the same time a fear of it. Love is what we most want, yet it is what we fear the most.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Past, Love Is

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.14, Paulist Press

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• The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Wise, Spiritual, Opportunity

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• It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Enlightenment, Bliss

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• 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.

  Marianne Williamson

  Forever, Promise, World

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 15, 2014

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• Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

  Khurram Murad

  Harvest, Repentance

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• Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Home, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.67

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• 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 creatures and things that we personally find beautiful and helpful and interesting. But everything. All of creation.

  Rob Brezsny

  Beautiful, Nature, People

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• 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 reach out with love, as He does.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Self Esteem, Feelings, Example

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• The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Voice, Tree, Dumb

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.7, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Strong, Writing, Sacrifice

  "The Razor's Edge". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1944.

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• Theres a wideness in Gods mercy
  I cannot find in my own
  And He keeps His fire burning
  To melt this heart of stone
  Keeps me aching with a yearning
  Keeps me glad to have been caught
  In the reckless raging fury
  That they call the love of God

  Rich Mullins

  Heart, Fire, Burning

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• 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 interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Light, Opposites

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.214, Random House

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• The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Religious, Joy, Miracle

  Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.30, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never named it before, or else they've named it in church, but they can't actually see the connection between what they're doing with food and this yearning. I call it "the flame" that they have: They yearn for big answers to live a big life. But they have to start with the most basic fears.

  Geneen Roth

  Thinking, Names, Flames

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• When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Morning, Enthusiasm, Inferiors

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ambition, Ambitious, Desire

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XIX, 1840.

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• When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings.

  Joan Anderson

  Blessing, Expectations, Accepting

  Joan Anderson (2011). “A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman”, p.30, Broadway Books

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• Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.

  William A. Henry III

  Believe, College, Levels

  William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.188, Anchor

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• The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.

  Aeschylus

  Rain, Heaven, Demeter

  Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”

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• As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it never turned away. Side by side through all His manifestations of Himself, there were the two aspects: "He showed Himself froward " (if I may quote the word) to the self-righteous and the Pharisee; and He bent with more than a woman's tenderness of 'yearning love over the darkness and sinfulness, which in its great darkness dimly knew itself blind, and in its sinfulness stretched out a lame hand of faith, and groped after a Divine deliverer.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Self, Hands, Class

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 68), 1895.

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• 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 establish this required truth. We therefore have phenomena called 'peace missions' and the 'peace process'. These are terms that apply to whatever the United States happens to be doing or advocating at some moment... in short, 'War is Peace'.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Engineering, Media

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