Quotes About Aspiration

Desire had a way of making a person oddly courageous.

You wanted a blue rose, Brock said. Didn't you? Wasn't that the whole point? Doesn't everyone want what they cannot have?(Elinor) Here's what I think: it's the quest that matters.(Brock)

Each time I opened the window in my bedroom I smelled salt and fish and human desire. I knew what I wanted: my own place in the world, not a path I took because I was under my father's command but one I had chosen for myself. I wanted to know how other girls my age wore their hair, for mine was still in braids as if I were a child. How had they learned to dance, choose silk dresses from the shops, form friendships?

Math plus desire equals who you are.

who I am to talk? I dream of rain.

We were no different from the doves above us. We could not speak or cry, but when there was no choice, we discovered we could fly. If you want a reason, take this: We yearned for our portion of the sky (p.397).

The most she dared to wish for now was to live long enough to become a woman.

All I wanted was to be somebody else. Was that asking too much? Was that asking for everything?

want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense.

She didn't really plan to travel there. She said there ought to be one place you thought about and knew about and maybe longed for but never did get to see.

I just think it would be beautiful,' she says. 'I think it would be beautiful if a woman could.

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

Look what happens when we dream.

ll you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why, it will come.

So much in life is about almosts, not quites.

Being a student meant always looking up to someone wiser and always measuring yourself against that wisdom and knowledge.

What you hope for, you also fear.

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Look closely at the Present you are Contructing, it should look like the Future you are Dreaming

There are two ways to surpass your parents. Ones is to achieve the thing they had hoped for. One is somewhat easier: just to live longer.

But Anne was asking herself why being queen mattered so much, when the chance for true love was hers for the seizing. And always she came back to the argument that the crown was hers for the seizing too. She had never seen marriage alone as an especially fulfilling estate for women. She had always wanted more in life – and more than she had ever dreamed of would soon, God willing, be in her grasp. There was so much that she could accomplish as queen.

I wake up in the morning with a dream in my eyes

Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.

Si deseas que tus sueños se hagan realidad, ¡despierta!