There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
Margaret Sanger
It's bizarre, because you'd kind of expect it to happen at the end but it happens right at the beginning, ... And throughout the film you kind of see my character constantly trying to get something off his chest, only his family and all the adults around him are oblivious to their kids and what their kids need. So there's this yearning for someone to listen to what his problem is.
Jamie Bell
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.
Shirley Hufstedler
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Mignon McLaughlin
This is an era of woman's work in many spheres of activity -- of independent thought and individual achievement in the arts and sciences and learned professions, as well as the humbler, but not more self-sacrificing fields of usefulness. But every woman pursues the eternal quest for love, for sympathy, for understanding, for happiness, and in her heart is the great, holy yearning for motherhood.
Billie Burke
We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.
Frank Gehry
I was yearning for a start-up.
Victor Liu
Compassion is the essence of Jesus' teaching, and indeed of the teaching of all great spiritual figures from Mohammed to Isaiah, from Lao Tzu to Chief Seattle. Yet compassion has been sentimentalized and severed from its relationship to justice-making and celebration. Creation Spirituality links the struggle for justice with the yearning for mysticism.
Matthew Fox
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.
Tim Berners lee
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
Brendan Francis
There must have been great yearning and repression in Mohamed Atta's life; it is the torment of Atta's generation. They were placed perilously close to modernity, but they could not partake of it.
Fouad Ajami
We voted 50-50 for the next president, ... One of the things that was notable was how much the American people today yearn for a sense of national unity and that brought it about. So there are a lot of things that happened after 12/7/41 that are happening now and will continue to happen, the most important of which is we became one people.
Stephen Ambrose
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch
Our inmost yearning, our deep desire for harmony in an extra-musical, transcendental sense feels affirmed, confirmed and calmed by music, and in this sense music seems to me a message a lofty ethical message that brings good tidings to the ethical part of our being from the mysteries of the world of sound.
Bruno Walter
[If you yearn for the days of] Back in Black, ... The Best Worst of AC/DC.
Paul Green
On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.
Michael Rosen
I believe it's time for a Welsh coach. Foreign coaches naturally have this yearning to go back home and work in their own back yard after a while.
Stuart Gallacher
I can see his tenacity and his yearning to go back this year.
Kelly Mulcahy
I yearn for a time when we are more engaged. When Dr. King was alive, no matter how you felt about him and what he was saying, people were talking.
Nancy Giles
Elements in our culture are promoting disrespect, but there's a strong yearning for respect in the human spirit, and our work makes us hopeful.
Mark Weiss
Everyone is yearning for this and it's a big-time meet.
Johnie Drake
But there is a deeper part of it, a yearning for some kind of centeredness, a feeling of mindfulness, making the world a better place as opposed to contributing to its demise.
Ariana Speyer
The Conservatives have a yearning to find a strong charismatic leader who will solve all their problems. They've decided to shut their eyes and put their faith in Cameron.
Andrew Cooper
The pure, the beautiful, the bright,That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer,The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost,The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes —These things can never die.
Sarah Doudney
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
Lillian Gish
I yearn for human contact & the casual online games afford me options to socialize without actually going there.
Frank Clarke
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.
Gail Godwin
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) ''Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources'.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
John Berryman
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
Giotto Di Bondone
It's a heartache. I never thought I'd be homeless. I'm fearful of the levee. It's so far below sea level. You might go to bed and wake up swimming — if you know how to swim. I have a yearning for a quieter place.
Mary Jones
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
That's the clinically meaningful metric people are yearning for when they come to a clinic. They want to know the chance they'll get well. The chances are excellent.
Gary Sachs
We never should have left. The fans here are yearning to support a championship team and that's exactly what we are planning to build.
Bernie Glieberman
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
I like to think, in the broadest way, this is about communication, ... How do we connect with something outside of ourselves - a spiritual yearning, or other people. All the strands come to that broad theme.
Scott Mcgehee
Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.
Bryant H. Mcgill
There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
I never claimed to have any extraordinary talent, just maybe extraordinary curiosity. I can learn, I am learning, and I hope to become a proficient, eventually a good, actress. Several have made the transition from a sex symbol to being taken seriously - that's something I really yearn for.
Dorothy Stratten
When you don't have that bond, it's difficult to have any structure. You don't have that togetherness you yearn for, you don't want to spill blood, sweat and tears with your teammates. It makes for a much more difficult working environment.
Verron Haynes
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Emma Lazarus
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