Quotes About Aspiration

The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a temporary and local place...

A comprehensive utopia may be out of reach, but the effort to realise it shapes the world for the better all the same. The belief may not be true, but it is useful. Belief makes the world.

A better world, yes; a perfect world, never.

In those days we were exploring who we wished to become, what the world might give us, and what we might give it, and so, though we did not know it, wandering was our real work anyway.

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always heading," wrote Oscar Wilde

Utopia itself is rarely more than an ideal or an ephemeral pattern on which to shape the real possibilities before us.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

the birds] were the yellow of all yellows, the kind of yellow that every other yellow secretly wishes to be.

If you're going to make something up about yourself, make it good

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

You are never given a wish without what it takes to make it true.

Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however...

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

Those who fly the highest see the furthest

Hiçbirinize, onu gerçekleÅŸtirecek güç olmaks?z?n bir dilek verilmemiÅŸtir. Ne var ki gerçekleÅŸtirmek için çal??man?z gerekebilir.

And with that, Jonathan held in thought an image of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew with practiced ease that he was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.

No cualquier hombre (permítanme una restricción y cierto romanticismo) es capaz de volar, sino aquel que siente que volar es su vida, que sabe que el cielo no es un lugar de trabajo o de diversión, sino que es su casa.

Ne kadar ehil ve lay?k olursan?z olun, kendiniz için o hayali kurmad?kça ve onu gerçekleÅŸtirmenize izin vermedikçe asla daha iyi bir hayata ulaÅŸamazs?n?z.

Yüce doÄŸrum bu mu? Gitmeyi en çok istediÄŸim yön bu mu? En büyük yeteneÄŸimi kullanmak istediÄŸim yol bu mu?

No importa quién sea usted ni la edad que tenga ni dónde viva; si lo desea, volará. Parece extraño, pero es así.

Her hair dreamt about being very carefully combed in the morning.