Quotes About Aspiration

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

I'm the boy who's going to glom onto this junk—if I'm lucky.

Your imagination must, to some extent, be found in a realm beyond reason because it begins with imagining a future reality: the self that you might become.

These are the dreams we should be having. I shouldn't have to clean them up like this.

He was not dead yet, not exactly— parts of him were dead already, certainly other parts were still only waiting for something to happen, something grand, but it isn't always about me, he keeps saying, though he's talking about the only heart he knows— He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There's a niche in his chest where a heart would fit perfectly and he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place— well then, game over.

You want a better story. Who wouldn't?

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven

I had a dream about you. We were in the gold room where everyone finally gets what they want.

Let me do it right for once, for the record, let me make a thing of cream and stars that becomes, you know the story, simply heaven.

you must want something, just tell me, and it's yours.

Look back on the good, look forward to the future.

Just as pretending to be brave can become real courage, we may find that outfitting ourselves as the person we want to be brings us closer to becoming that person.

La vie humaine est limitée, mais je voudrais vivre éternellement – Human life is limited but I would like to live forever. - Yukio Mishima

you would be surprised how many people seriously limit their dreams. They're your dreams for heaven's sake. There should be no limit to them. Plans have to be realistic; dreams don't.

PLANS HAVE TO BE REALISTIC; DREAMS DON'T

The key is to appreciate what we've got right now and yet still dream and plan.

The person who would like to make his dreams come true must stay awake.

I tried to be a better person for her– but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when I'm around you, I want to be better because… well, because it feels right. Because I want to. You make me want to become something greater than myself. I want to excel. You inspire me in every act, every word, every glance. I look at you, and you're like… like light made into flesh. […] You have no clue how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.

Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a super-hero." "Not yet," I said.

We cannot road trip to Paris.

Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.