The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and bea...
I, too, head for the Baths of Caracalla, thinking—with my old, magnificent privilege of thinking… (And let there still be a god in me that thinks, lost, weak, and childish, yet whose voice is so human it is almost a song.) Oh, to leave this priso...
Sometimes, one yearns for something.For the ultimate in happiness. I yearn for it,and don't know where to look for it any longer. And I don't know if I would recognize it if I found it. And the longer I look, the more selfish I grow.For I think only ...
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
Every soul yearns for freedom.
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
I yearn to taste my desire on your lips.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
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.
Yearn to grow in the field of love and bliss not in the field of competition and contemplation.
Life is for intense love; yearning for love is the basis of an intense life.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
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.
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.
The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships. In fact, this may be The most important thing we ever learn about God--the He yearns for relationship with us. ...
When this happens, as it is today, then, to quote Eric Hoffer, “When freedom destroys order, the yearning for order will destroy freedom.” At that point the words left or right will make no difference. They are only two roads to the same end. The...
