Yearning

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there read more

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. read more

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are read more

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human read more

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.

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a read more

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.