Quotes About Yearnings

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

The things a man will wish for are harder to leave behind than all his wants...

What is a communist? One who hath yearningsFor equal division of unequal earnings.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

Hayattan ayr?lmak istemeyiz, çünkü tatmin edilmemi? birçok arzular?m?z vard?r.

Silence will put us in touch with yearnings, anxieties, pain, despair, envy, competition, and a host of other feelings that need to be put into words if we are to move toward a place of centeredness and come into possession of our lives. The fact is that most of us have an incredible amount of unfaced suffering in our histories that has to be looked at and worked through.

Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacing are swung--are scarcely perceptible; momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life to another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.

Much of what animated me in those days I now recognize as the romantic yearnings of an idealistic, alienated, and aimless young man. I endowed these strange, exotic people, about whom I knew little, with all the virtues that my own culture seemed to lack.

Memory is the single most powerful driving force in how we learn to eat; it shapes all our yearnings.

We all suffer from dreams.

Every person has hopes and dreams.

God fills us with all sorts of yearnings that go against the grain of the world—but the fact those yearnings often come to nothing, well, I doubt that's God's doing." She cut her eyes at me and smiled. "I think we know that's men's doing.

Our one true God dwelled inside the Holy of Holies in the Temple at Jerusalem, and I was sure it was impious to speak of a similar place existing inside humans, and worse still to suggest that yearnings inside girls like me had intimations of divinity. It was the most beautiful, wicked blasphemy I'd ever heard.

but inside a woman's there are only longings.

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

The downside to the Whole Foods experience is that its success is driven by one of our era's more grotesque phenomena: the upwardly-mobile urban dweller, the one who wants to indulge class-conscious epicurean yearnings and save the world, too.

I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.

If self-absorption, vague yearnings, and a nagging sense of incompleteness are sins, then surely I will burn for all eternity, and I will save you a seat.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

Forse è impossibile separare i bisogni dai desideri.

Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.

At the magic touch of the beautiful the secret chords of our being are awakened, we vibrate and thrill in response to its call. Mind speaks to mind. We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen. The master calls forth notes we know not of. Memories long forgotten all come back to us with a new significance. Hopes stifled by fear, yearnings that we dare not recognise, stand forth in new glory.