#yearn

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#himself #impossible #man #only #strives

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#i #someday #these #yearning

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#beautiful #heaven #lost-city #stillness #vision

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#become #beliefs #different #different beliefs #different people

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#beauty #desire #elegance #fresh #innovative

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#been #body #centre #god #join

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

— Brendan Francis

#deep #innermost #loneliness #lost #powerful

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#free #give #give me #huddled #masses

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#again #back #came #comes #energy

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. ↗

— Eric Liu

#christian faith #every #faith #just #life