Quotes About Aspiration

When adversity threatens to paralyze us, we need to reassert control by finding a new direction in which to invest psychic energy, a direction that lies outside the reach of external forces. When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free.

When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free.

one society is "better" than another if a greater number of its people have access to experiences that are in line with their goals.

My dad never did anything, though," Jenna continued. "He never . . . I don't know, he never went off to join the star force so he could help guard ships, or anything. I don't know if it was even because he was scared to. I think it's just that he wouldn't have got paid enough.

Garbage clutters the house that has no dream.

As you dream, the stars realign.

Go ahead, want it all. That's what it's there for.

Never did I wake up on a morning feeling like, I made it! I'm living my dreams! Yet still, only in hindsight, I had and I was.

May all that you wish for be the least you receive.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.

Instead of opening ourselves to the virtually unlimited potential and flexibility of which human beings are capable, we concentrate our energies on trying to live up to an ideal.

Never give up. If you want to be something, be conceited about it, give yourself a chance. Never say you are not good, that will never get you anywhere. Set goals, That's what life is made of.

Do not say to yourself, "I've got a book in me!" (huge cliché anyway) and assume that means you are also competent to write a book.

Never let your dreams go away.

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

Let us, then, never look back, let us look ever forward; for forward is our sunlight, forward our salvation.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

Why try to pursue what is completed?

The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.