"Yearning" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Yearning"

"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

#Mean #Feels #Yearning

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

--- Adyashanti

#Requirements #Yearning #Spirituality

"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 #Yearning #Dissatisfaction

"Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth."

--- Adyashanti

#Yearning #Awakening

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

--- Adyashanti

#Yearning #Source

"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

#Herds #Wedlock #Rite

"I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I've not done any for a good long while now. I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry. I didn't hate it, but I was yearning to do something different. I was on a gradient. It was a gradual thing."

--- Agyness Deyn

#Thinking #Four Years #Yearning

"The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Nature Of Man #Soul #Yearning

"Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures."

--- Alan Hirsch

#Yearning #Adventure #Consciousness

"The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul."

--- Alan Hirsch

#Fundamentals #Soul #Exclusive

"I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced."

--- Albert Einstein

#Soul #Yearning #Reduction

"My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good."

--- Albert Rosenfeld

#Be Good #Yearning #Goodness

"To die of yearning for something you will never experience"

--- Alessandro Baricco

#Yearning #Dies #Yearning For Something

"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness."

--- Alex Haley

#Who We Are #Enriching #Vacuums

"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

#Tenderness #Yearning #Self Righteous

"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

#Multitudes #Yearning #Ambition

"The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power."

--- Alfred Adler

#Yearning #Higher #Psychological

"No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart."

--- Alfred de Vigny

#Yearning #Human Heart #Phrases

"The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may."

--- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Free Love #Past Away #Fields

"And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought."

--- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Yearning #Gray #Spirit

"[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable."

--- Alistair Cooke

#Yearning #Golfers #Bud

"Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering."

--- Anais Nin

#Soul #Yearning #Your Soul

"I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice."

--- Andre Dubus

#Passion #Yearning #Injustice

"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

#Suggesting #Ideals #Yearning

"This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own spiritual yearnings in the biggest possible context, in such a way that is going to compel us to finally transcend our self-concern. We need to find the heart to come together in such a way that will enable us to face the challenges before us. And to do this, we need a new spirituality. We need a new enlightenment."

--- Andrew Cohen

#Yearning #Spirituality #Together

"That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story ."

--- Andrew Lam

#Rootedness #Yearning #World

"History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs."

--- Angela Merkel

#People #Europe #Yearning

"Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other."

--- Ann Brashares

#People #Feels #Yearning

"This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us that, yes, helping people is hard-but it's both possible and infinitely rewarding. A Path Appears offers practical steps that any of us can take to empower others, and ourselves."

--- Anne Rice

#People #Practicals #Steps

"I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality."

--- Anne Waldman

#People #Thinking #New York

30 "Yearning" Quotes