We are the total of our longings. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay

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. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired. ~ Ovid

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

Yearning is essential to all real learning. ~ Eric Booth

There is not a heart that but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. ~ Brendan Francis

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular one and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries. ~ Iris Murdoch

Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth. ~ Jay Cocks

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. ~ Andre Gide

There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want. ~ Noel Coward

After 20 years of listening to the yearnings of people’s hearts, I am convinced that human beings have an inborn desire for God. ~ Gerald C. May

A person who believes... that there is a whole of which one is part, and that in being a part, one is whole such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it. ~ Ursula Le Guin

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. ~ Morris Fishbein

After 20 years of listening to the yearnings of people’s hearts, I am convinced that human beings have an inborn desire for God. ~ Gerald C. May

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. ~ Brendan Francis

But the mother's yearning . . . feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man. ~ George Eliot

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are. ~ Ram Dass