John Cho

Star Trek' seems to be an appeal to our better nature, the side of ourselves that works toward peace and cooperation and understanding and knowledge and yearns to seek out knowledge rather than the side that wants to divide and control one another.

American Actor

Jason Robert Brown

As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me.

American Musician

Johan Huizinga

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

Dutch Historian

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.

American Author

Julie Andrews

My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her.

English Actress

Jane Fallon

Whenever I'm out, I have a bit of a yearning to be in my house, to be able to shut the door on the world.

English Author

Jacqueline Novogratz

People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope.

American Businesswoman

Lillian Gish

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

American Actress

Andre Breton

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

French Poet

Ray Fisher

Obviously, the world is yearning for more diversity.

Yearn represents a deep emotional desire, more intense than just wanting something

Emotional Intensity

Yearning typically involves a sense of loss or absence.

Often Melancholic

Yearn implies something not easily or quickly satisfied.

Not Instantly Gratified

Yearning can drive one's actions toward achieving a heartfelt goal.

Action Motivator

Yearn also encompasses a hopeful feel, in wanting something positive.

Linked With Hope

Yearning isn't fleeting; it suggests persistent and enduring desire.

Duration Matters

Yearn can show a profound level of empathy towards someone else.

Sympathetic Connection

Yearn in sympathy is more common in older texts and sounds archaic now.

Rare Literary Use

Yearning can describe a desire to alleviate someone's distress.

Deep Compassion

 Does that mean that you think that the other things we think our brains are about -- the dreaming, the yearning, the falling in love and all these things -- are a kind of side show, an accident? No, no, actually I think they're all important to drive the right movement behavior to get reproduction in the end. So I think people who study sensation or memory

Daniel Wolpert: The real...

 he began writing novels and essays while taking a series of odd jobs. But the issues that had driven him away from the Church were still inescapable in his daily life. Constantly confronted with racism and homophobia, he was angry and disillusioned, and yearned for a less restricted life.

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 I want to talk about how the things we've been taught to think about giving and about charity and about the nonprofit sector, are actually undermining the causes we love, and our profound yearning to change the world. But before I do that, I want to ask if we even believe

The way we think about...

 And I am doing the most rewarding and meaningful work of my life right now. I can tell you there's lots of resources available to entrepreneurs of all ages, but what I really yearned for five years ago was to find other first-time entrepreneurs

How I became an...

 studio I was yearning for new ideas new sounds and more than anything else a new sense of meaning playing with sensors that track see like physical signals like brainwaves heartbeats motion I became fascinated with translating the

How can we make music...

 being sexually harassed by unattached males there's no shortage of them gangs of frustrated young bachelors lurk around the edges of the troop sexually mature they each yearn for their own family of females and frequently make

Gelada Baboon Sexual...

 spirit that yearns to really know the universe as it is science is a beautiful and emotional human endeavor and cosmos is all about making science and experience we were able to make it exciting and feel like a cinematic

Cosmos: A Spacetime...

 that is beyond our understanding. That's the part of us that yearns for God, or something more than we find in technology. Your soul is that part of you that yearns for meaning in life,

Billy Graham:...

 into public life, in a way that I'd never imagined, I've been able to sort of go all over the world, and finding, everywhere I go, a yearning for change.

Karen Armstrong: 2008...

 Do you yearn to defend your own beliefs? Or do you yearn to see the world as clearly as you possibly can? Thank you.

Yearn

To have a strong, often sad desire for something or someone.

Often appears as...

To feel a strong emotional desire or craving.

Often appears as...

To feel deep compassion or sympathy.

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Emotional Intensity

Often Melancholic

Not Instantly Gratified

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