In making a clear distinction between desire (answer) and yearning (question), we inevitably end up back at personal purpose.
– Darrell Calkins
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- By its nature, what you yearn for is most often intimidating. It produces, and itself is, a question, and one that is not easy to engage or answer. – Darrell Calkins
- The nature of yearning is urgent so as to guarantee evolution, change. – Darrell Calkins
- when you avoid one life question, you answer another life question. The question is : what life question do you want to answer? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Well-being, or wholeness, implies integrity and harmony between all existing elements, providing freedom for the whole. – Darrell Calkins
- There’s surprising relief and regeneration in finding ourselves within a moment of genuine grace, however small or temporary it may be. – Darrell Calkins
- My intention is not to define a perfect life and then cause an unhappy analysis of what you are not doing correctly or are incapable of doing. – Darrell Calkins
- The challenges are illusions, but necessary ones to determine if you can see through them. – Darrell Calkins
- If you know what life really wants, and if you know what you really want, you can begin to create the relationship. – Darrell Calkins
- The purest definition of -œreligious- is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality. – Darrell Calkins
- Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you’re setting free is yourself. – Darrell Calkins
- If you don’t practice presence, you never learn how to have busyness facilitate accomplishment. – Darrell Calkins
- Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question. – Chloe Thurlow
- Ask the question, receive the answer; don’t ask the question, don’t receive the answer. – DR Silva
- If the answer of your question is the question of your answer be Nacre – Hamza Khan Takkar
- Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life. – Khurram Murad
- The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. – Nikolai A Berdyaev
- When you wrestle with life, your heart inevitably becomes a warrior; when you wrestle with death, your soul inevitably becomes a conqueror. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The call of distinction cannot be heard by the average, neither can the vision of distinction be seen by the eyes of the mediocre. – Onyi Anyado
- The clear purpose of the leader is to give a clear purpose to the team. – Paul Sloane
- History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them. – Aziz Hamza
- The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud. – Manu Joseph
- …there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to ???? and the desire to kill. – M Thomas Gammarino
- Things go wrong for a purpose. Just know the purpose, and just understand how to distinctively use the purpose for a great purpose! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Sometimes life ask you a question, but you couldn’t find answer in any book. You have to create answer yourself. – Salman Mansuri
- The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough. – Barbara Hambly
- Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it. – Armin Navabi
- Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition. – Gina Barreca
- yearning n. and adj.At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. – David Levithan
- yearning n. and adj.At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. – David Levithan
- I was besieged by a yearning, a craving, a burning desire. My heart had opened like one of those mysterious flowers that only bloom at night. – Chloe Thurlow
- Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here’s the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next? – Richard Siken
- Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year. – Dean Koontz
- When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.The gray area between yes and no.Silence. – Dan Brown
- Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. – Charles de Lint
- It made me wonder if there is much difference in our hearts between love and grief. they both have a yearning that seems unable to be satisfied. – Suzanne Kelman
- The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud. – David Levithan
- There is no greater freedom than the freedom to desire. There is no greater desire than the desire to be free. – R A Delmonico
- The greatest desire is the desire to be free. The greatest freedom is the freedom to desire. – RADelmonico
- To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers