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  I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

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  Ram Dass

  Love, Looks, Get Back

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.35, Harmony

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• The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.

  David Duval

  Blessed, Appreciate, Way

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

  Daniel Libeskind

  Kids, Artistic, Bronx

  "You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• Learn the richness of solitude & quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard.

  Susan Jeffers

  Voice, Meditation, Solitude

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• Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Life, Sky, Trying

  Sue Monk Kidd (2014). “The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)”, p.212, Penguin

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• I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them.

  John Keats

  Beautiful, Morning, Writing

  John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.150

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• There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Longing, Moments

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 15, 1895.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Longing, Trouble

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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• Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Childhood, Remember, Longing

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• One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

  Ovid

  Doe, Longing

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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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• Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

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  Ram Dass

  Spring, Creativity, Longing

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.30, Harmony

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• ...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes at the bit and, careless of the cost, it tries a second tack. Either it looks at things visible and makes of these a god - a gross mistake, for what visible thing is more sublime, more godlike, than its observer... - or else it discovers God through the beauty and order of things seen, using sight as a guide to what transcends sight without losing God through the grandeur of what it sees.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Mistake, Tired

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• Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

  Israel Shenker

  Travel, Writing, Rope

  Israel Shenker (1974). “Words and their masters”

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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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• What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Earning, Pockets, Idlers

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• I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Lying, Men

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