All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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.
We Are All the Same Listen to the reeds as they sway apart; Hear them speak of lost friends. At birth, you were cut from your bed, Crying and grasping in separation. Everyone listens, knowing your song. You yearn for others who know your name, And the words to your lament. We are all the same, all the same, Longing to find our way back; Back to the one, back to the only one.
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.
I choose life. I choose to eat, for I yearn for something more.
They yearn for what they fear for.
Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.
Life is conspiring in your favor. It may not always look that way, but it is, I assure you. Everything that is happening, is happening just the wayit must, in order for you to have the opportunity tocreate the experience of your Self for which you yearn.
Trust and confidence in Christ and a ready reliance on His merits, mercy, and grace lead to hope, through His Atonement, in the Resurrection and eternal life. Such faith and hope invite into our lives the sweet peace of conscience for which we all yearn.
One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.
Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.
I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yetSit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
What men yearn for they often destroy.
Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
