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«At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.»
«Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.»
«A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning»
Author: Lillian Gish
(Actress)
| Keywords:
earning, Happy Life, learning, spent, yearned, yearning, yearnings
«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.»
«Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women»
«But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.»
«I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.»
«I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
company, Company of, lamp, library, Society of, yearned, yearning, yearnings
«Creeds, ritual, religion and different theologies are all derived from man?s yearning for the vast Reality beyond - and flow in the thousand different forms, fertilizing many fields, calming many communities, refreshing tired people and, at last, carrying people to the ocean of Bliss.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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bliss, calming, carrying, communities, creeds, derived, fertilize, fertilized, fertilizes, fertilizing, Fields, flow, ocean, refreshes, refreshing, ritual, theologies, vast, yearning, yearnings
«Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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