Octavio Paz
Poet, Essayist
"Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion."
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Yearning
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Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering."
Russell Brand
Comedian, Actor
"If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within."
Portia de Rossi
Actress
"Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have."
Cheryl Strayed
Author, Memoirist
"I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in."
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"I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings."
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"Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for."
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"You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live."
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"The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present."
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"There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me."
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"I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love."
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"Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me."
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"Creativity is a yearning for immortality"
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"One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired."
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"Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn."
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"There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness."
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"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."
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