Quotes About Aspiration

The sorrows of the world are, because we live too little in the future.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.

Look, whatever you do in life, remember, think higher and feel deeper. It cannot be bad if you do that.

Whatever you think in life… think higher and feel deeper, be positive.

Mandy! What's your goal in life? Visualize it! When you visualize, you materialize.

Al águila le entusiasma sobrevolar el mundo desde las alturas, no a fin de contemplar con desprecio a la gente, sino para animarla a que mire hacia lo alto.

Have you located your passion as if this was your last night on earth?

God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.

Whenever Sadie sees engagement rings, she feels a strange mix of emotions: a kind of excitement mixed with a vague sadness. A longing for a speci??c kind of inclusion she both aspires to and fears. And, oddly, she feels a sense of failure, of shame. She knows it's nonsensical, but there it is, big inside her, this sense of having screwed everything up, of having lost something she never had.

There's so much she can't wait for.

I see where all this success has led me. Now I want to see what it's kept me from.

Right, I'll bet he's another vegetarian. Another Unitarian vegetarian who holds up peace signs at street corners every Saturday afternoon and aspires to live in a Mongolian yurt.

she feels a strange mix of emotions: a kind of excitement mixed with a vague sadness. A longing for a specific kind of inclusion she both aspires to and fears. And, oddly, she feels a sense of failure, of shame. She knows its nonsensical, but there it is, big inside her, this sense of having screwed everything up, of having lost something she never had.

People talk about how sad it would be to die before they've done everything they want to do or seen everything they want to see. But I think it would be worse to live life and have there be nothing left that you want to see or do.

there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.

without the stars there to remind us, whatever would we reach for?" Her

And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

debt will always be the abattoir of creative dreams.

I wanted to be all Gandhi about this. I wanted to be all Nelson Mandela about this. Not realizing at the time that both Gandhi and Mandela were lawyers.

you will never be able to create anything interesting out of your life if you don't believe that you're entitled to at least try.

Me peame laskma oma südamel aeg-ajalt puruneda. Purustatud süda on hea märk. See tähendab, et sa vähemalt pürgisid millegi poole.