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«Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.»
Author: Beca Lewis (Accountant, Dancer, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Spiritual mentor, Writer) | About: Understanding | Keywords: first, second, seconded, understand, understood, yearn, yearned
«A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning»
Author: Lillian Gish (Actress) | Keywords: earning, Happy Life, learning, spent, yearned, yearning, yearnings
«When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.»
Author: Mignon McLaughlin (Author, Journalist) | Keywords: forgetting, For some, sign, suffering, yearn, yearned
«Underneath an apple-treeSat a maiden and her lover;And the thoughts within her heYearned, in silence, to discover.Round them danced the sunbeams bright,Green the grass-lawn stretched before themWhile the apple blossoms whiteHung in rich profusion o'er them.»
Author: Will Carleton | Keywords: apple, apple tree, blossoms, danced, Green Grass, hung, lawn, maiden, profusion, Sat, stretched, sunbeams, The Apple, underneath, yearned
«I love those who yearn for the impossible.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: impossible, yearn, yearned
«Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bowels, divide, slay, yearned
«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.»
Author: Helen Keller (Author, Educator) | About: Limits | Keywords: at times, breeze, breezes, flowers, Just a, limitations, perhaps, sad, seldom, think about, touch, vague, vaguer, yearned, yearning, yearnings
«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
«Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: troubles, yearn, yearned
«When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: at birth, birth, births, by birth, ends, living, no more, yearned, yearning, yearnings
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