Quotes About Aspiration

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What

for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

they considered "very important" to them now, 16 percent of the students checked "making a lot of money"; 78 percent said their first goal was "finding a purpose and meaning to my life.

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then

el amor es la meta última y más alta a la que puede aspirar el hombre. Percibí entonces, en toda su profundidad, el significado del mayor secreto que la poesía, el pensamiento y las creencias intentan comunicar: la salvación del hombre consiste en el amor y pasa por el amor. Comprendí

that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become.

el amor es la meta última y más alta a la que puede aspirar el hombre. Percibí entonces, en toda su profundidad, el significado del mayor secreto que la poesía, el pensamiento y las creencias intentan comunicar: la salvación del hombre consiste en el amor y pasa por el amor.

everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find)

Thus it can be seen that mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become. Such

Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which a man can aspire. The salvation of man is through love and in love...

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future

How beautiful the world could be!

amor es la meta última y más alta a la que puede aspirar el hombre.

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.

sublimemque feres ad sidera caeli magnanimum Aenean vv. 258, libro I

love pales into insignificance when pitted against ambition.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

At one moment we deplore our birth and state and aspire to an ascetic exaltation; the next we are overcome by the smell of some old garden path and weep to hear the thrushes sing.