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Quotes About Aspiration

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
~ Heinrich Heine
All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank.
~ Ina Garten
I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration.
~ James A. Michener
Your dreams should never be better than your real life
~ Karl Pilkington
If you're not satisfied with your life, it's time to invent a new one.
~ Mary Wells Lawrence
My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.
~ Mason Cooley
I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.
~ Matisyahu
I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.
~ Maurice Sendak
When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
~ Zadie Smith
Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream.
~ Paulo Coelho
The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
One day, she'd find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.
~ Ilona Andrews, On the Edge
I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
~ Tori Amos
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.
~ Patrick Ness, More Than This
It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.
~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.
~ Dan Brown
Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is
~ Laini Taylor
For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.
~ Louis C. K.
Life is a dream, realise it.
~ Mother Teresa
Live the Life you'd be envious of if you saw someone else living it.
~ Olivia Munn
I don't have goals in life.
~ Olivier Martinez