If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

And finally, she saw him smile. It chased the shadows from his face and made him a boy again. It was a smile that a woman could grow to yearn for.

If you yearn to learn, you’ll learn to earn.

The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know what happens to chocolate when you leave it out in the sun? I’m that unfortunate chocolate and you, you are the laughing sun. For this reason, I am offering myself to you not as a martyr or some selfless fool, but as a self-indulgent moth who actively pursues the light without much fear for the flame. The moth who revels in the heat and declares: Burn me.

Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed

Usually, when I dream of flying I am simply flapping my arms and somehow I lift off and glide through the sky. Last night was different. I missed you so much and my yearning was so powerful that I sprouted wings like a phoenix and soared to reach you. And now I finally understand: if you see lovers on a roof, do not worry. Surely, love has metamorphosed them.

Throughout her life, Highsmith looked for women whom she could worship. Sex was far from the most important factor in any relationship; rather, it was this near-divine quality for which she yearned.

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

Will I live yearning for a world that I need not yearn for because the message of Christmas is entirely undaunted in its ability to handily penetrate and completely subjugate the very world that I doubt its ability to survive in?

To see her is to be seduced by her.

Seduce yourself first.

A spark of every fire we seek is already within us.

My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

To yearn for love is for kingdom reality to residue in your psyche

You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a placeto be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again toleave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears.Very much on the verge of tears.And very frightened.

Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.

You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?

Dare to dream and yearn to learn to cross the boundary of fears and doubts.

The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams by night, calling to him and pleading with him to unlock the chains he'd bound about it.

True emotions yearn for genre love of God

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."- from "Dimpellumpzki

...be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for.

You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty.""If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?""Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.

The more you know, the more you yearn for knowledge.

When your knowlege increases over time, yearn to learn to dance in your mind.

I can't tell whether a revived man would appreciate his second chance or yearn for the stolen serenity.