Quotes About Aspirations

His wife, who was a year or two older than himself, was a fashionable woman, with thorough Whig tastes and aspirations, such as became the daughter of a great Whig earl; she cared for politics, or thought that she cared for them, more than her husband did; for a month or two previous to her engagement she had been attached to the Court, and had been made to believe that much of the policy of England's rulers depended on the political intrigues of England's women.

I wanted what she [her mother] had wanted, what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safely and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all.

But I understood, now, her dilemma. I wanted what she had wanted, what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all.

It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and no profession by which he may earn any.

Existia um livro que eu acreditava ter me feito vislumbrar quem seria no futuro: Mulherzinhas, de Louisa May Alcott

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

Life gets in the way of dreams. Dreams get in the way of life. That's the way it's always been.

Everyone should keep a dream journal, did you know that?

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

challenges _! no music, no dreams, no hopes, _but one has to live !

Many of us live the lives to follow others dreams, we rarely create and follow our own imaginations and dreams.

Your life is made up of your dreams and your realities, your expectations and your possibilities.

We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests.

I have dreams that I will reach balance in my life, and, at forty-one, I have none.

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

That's how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

We are human because we can fantasize.

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.

Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access, or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears