Quotes About Aspiration

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Beyond us I could see the mountains rising blue and hazy, and I knew I had only to cross them and keep on walking to catch up with all my dreams.

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods!

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.

It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.

Andy Warhol would like to have been Edie Sedgwick. He would like to have been a charming, well-born débutante from Boston. He would like to have been anybody except Andy Warhol.

You didn't give up wanting things because your life had put them out of reach.

you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end.

If you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end.

Leurs cheveux pouvaient bien grouiller de poux, leurs gencives saigner, leurs ventres crier dans le vide, ils avaient l'éclatante santé des rêveurs.

In un certo paese vivevano un uomo molto ricco e un uomo molto povero. Ognuno aveva un figlio. L'uomo molto ricco salì con il figlio sulla cima di una collina, gli indicò con un gesto il paesaggio circostante e gli disse: Guarda. Un giorno tutto questo sarà tuo. L'uomo molto povero salì con il figlio sulla cima della stessa collina, gli indicò il paesaggio circostante e gli disse semplicemente: Guarda.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;

The story of a marriage was an excellent way to fulfill the goal of discussing class without discussing class, and to tell an audience that they were upwardly mobile.

That these people would leave their homes, their cultures, their families, even their languages, and venture into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn't even want them.

También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams.

She's wondered with the sort of detached fascination of the comfortable elite how dire the conditions of their lives must be wherever they come from, that this is the better option. That these people would leave their homes, their cultures, their families, even their languages, and venture into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn't even want them.

come from, that this is the better option. That these people would leave their homes, their cultures, their families, even their languages, and venture into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn't even want them.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.

Most people, upon reaching the top, look down and enjoy the view. The smart money is on looking up and finding new mountains to climb.