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• 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.

  Carolyn Porco

  Beautiful, Dream, Sublime

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• A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

  Mary Balogh

  Passion, Sunset, Soul

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.67, Dell

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• We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Planets, Creatures

  Robert Olen Butler, Janet Burroway (2006). “From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction”, p.40, Grove Press

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• I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .

  Ntozake Shange

  Teenager, Writing, Thinking

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• My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Joy, Solitude, Burning

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole, 1994.

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• Let no one pray that they know not sorrow,
  Let no soul ask to be free from pain,
  For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow,
  And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
  Through want of a thing does its worth redouble,
  Through hunger's pangs does the feast content,
  And only the heart that has harboured trouble
  Can fully rejoice when joy is sent.
  Let no one shrink from the bitter tonics
  Of grief, and yearning, and need, and strife,
  For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonics
  Are found in the minor strains of life.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sweet, Pain, Grief

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Life's Harmonies”

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• In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.

  Adyashanti

  Real, Integrity, Mean

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• The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Growth, Requirements

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• Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being. The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Islamic, Home, Land

  "Depending on God" by Yasmin Mogahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2011.

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• Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Inquiry, Literature

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

  Hugh Mackay

  Leadership, Strong, Vision

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• Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

  Plato

  Children, Plato, Spring

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• This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what we can to help them acknowledge it and to realize it by joining in worship. We thereby carry to others the answer to their inmost longing, a yearning for union with the Trinity, a thirst to respond with adoration to the God who made them.

  Marva Dawn

  Joining In, Looks, Answers

  Marva J. Dawn (2009). “In the Beginning, GOD: Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life”, p.44, InterVarsity Press

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• I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only You Know. Only a thorough initiate of the scene who also had some genius with language could summon the demotic yet electric voice for the job. If there is ruefulness, now, for the way he treated his body, his girlfriends, and his family, he wisely reprises in his book, in neon detail, the fever that once placed him in the same drunken boat with Iggy Pop, Rimbaud and Artaud.

  Jaimy Gordon

  Song, Girlfriend, Jobs

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• When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Family, Heart, Connections

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• The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

  Peter Høeg

  Reality, Bridges, Balance

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Tales of the Night”, p.309, Macmillan

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• Sixty years is cause enough to sing
  In celebration of a gentle life!
  To the mother and the wife,
  Taking pleasure in what love might bring,
  Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.

  Nick Gordon

  Birthday, Mother, Years

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Artist, Conjuring, Unconscious

  Carl Gustav Jung (1978). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The spirit in man, art, and literature”

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• We are the total of our longings.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Longing

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Mean, People, Important

  "Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Talks Constitution, Women And Liberty On Egyptian TV" By Mike Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.

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• Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World, Melancholy, Ends

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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• When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that ideal, I am not for a moment suggesting that art should shun the 'dirt' of the world. On the contrary! the artistic image is always a metonym, where one thing is substituted for another, the smaller for the greater. To tell of what is living, the artist uses something dead; to speak of the infinite, he shows the finite. Substitution... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Beautiful, Art, Use

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• Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Boys, People

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.77

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• Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

  Shekhar Kapur

  Life, Lessons, Life Lesson

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• There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

  Noel Coward

  Friendship, Want, Remember

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.68, A&C Black

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