There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.
When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.
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.
I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.
There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.
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.
So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.
Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.
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.
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, bitter language compounded of human misery, yearning, regret, failure, wasted effort
The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth
There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
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.
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.