Quotes About Aspiration

She wanted the best oils and perfumes, wanted the best kind of life, wanted the most tender hopes, wanted the best delicate meats and also the heaviest ones to eat, wanted her flesh to break into spirt and her spirit to break into flesh, wanted those fine mixtures— everything that would secretly ready her for those first moments that would come.

Não, não, ainda melhor assim: cada um com um corpo, empurrando-o para frente, querendo sofregamente vivê-lo. Procurando cheio de cobiça subir o outro, pedindo cheio de covardia astuciosa e comovente para existir melhor, melhor.

Pela primeira vez na vida eu teria o que sempre quisera: ia ser outra que não eu mesma.

Nesse dia, pois, ele conheceu uma das raras formas de estabilidade: A estabilidade do desejo irrealizável, a estabilidade do ideal inatingível

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.

You have to think big to be big.

Meet me at the moon.

Anchored in unknowing, I yearn to rise out of the restlessness of my own forms of helplessness inside a structure that constricts possibilities.

Solo que todo depende de una gracia de aspiración al conocimiento del misterio, de nuestra paciencia, persistencia y energía suficiente para aceptar el sufrimiento de la transición a una vida nueva.

I had been told by a number of people that if you get half of what you want on your first album, you're doing really well. Pretty much every single thing they had was something that I liked. There were maybe one or two songs I didn't like, and they were taken off the album quickly.

I don't know that I aspired to be in politics, though, no. I mean, this was not a goal of mine. This was not a part of my original life plan. But having done television, and having been able to be in the public eye, and get a platform and a microphone, so to speak -- both figuratively and literally -- I have an opportunity to speak and have people listen.

Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you'll never become that person.

You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.

It doesn't matter how many bombs we drop on the Middle East, how many children are mutilated and killed, the jihadis like the phoenix will rise from the ashes and the refugees and asylum seekers will keep coming. Once they have seen on their mobile phones the way we live, they will look out across their deserts and wastelands and make the journey west.

Life isn't what it is. It's what it can be.

Every sunrise will give the illumination in any man's hope what the moonlight cannot provide.

The journey in life never stops as long as you look forward.

Live simple, but don't stop dreaming. The world is not yours to hold, but you can manage it in your own time.

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself and your dreams.

When absolute power is on offer, talent fights to get in.

It would be a desirable and enviable existence just to earn a decent wage at a worthwhile job and spend all one's leisure hours improving one's aesthetic appreciation. There is so much to appreciate, and it is all available for peanuts. One can plausibly aspire to seeing, hearing and reading everything that matters.

Dreams out of the ivory gate, and visions before midnight. —SIR THOMAS BROWNE,

Hitler wouldn't have needed to find someone else. Someone else would have found him. When absolute power is on offer, talent fights to get in.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.