Quotes by Yearning Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself. Adyashanti yearning source Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth. Adyashanti yearning awakening To die of yearning for something you will never experience Alessandro Baricco yearning-for-something yearning dies Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. Anais Nin yearning soul suffering 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 conjuring yearning artist In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. Charles Lamb yearning strong faces I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in. Cheryl Strayed yearning wanted way There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me. Cole Porter hungry yearning burning The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning. David Quammen underwater yearning creatures And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee Doreen Valiente yearning mystery thee Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. Douglas Adams pleasant nostalgic yearning [Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person. Gloria Steinem yearning choices ideas I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I. Greta Garbo yearning-for-something yearning sea We are the total of our longings. Guy Gavriel Kay longing yearning We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning. Hafez Ibrahim yearning constant body I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was another future moment when I had to attain something else. These internal yearnings keep happiness in a future moment. Isha Judd yearning determined moments There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness. Henry David Thoreau wildness yearning nature Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it. Jeffrey Zaslow yearning culture people 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 yearning enthusiasm morning Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another. John Pierrakos yearning marriage alive 123»