Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources. I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
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The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.
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Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But wh
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A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
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He alone knows everything, unto whom the Lord Himself gives knowledge. One may talk and preach and give sermons but still yearn after Maya.
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Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
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Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that wo...
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Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
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Only I discern— Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
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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.
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2 Timothy 1:4:
Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.
(NIV)
And when, as I recall your tears, I yearn to see you so that I may be filled with joy.
(AMP)
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
(KJV)
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I don't yearn to be a child again.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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