Quotes About Aspiration

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

Perhaps it is freedom, of speech and conduct, which is really envied by the unsuccessful, not money or even power.

Everything had seemed possibile. One could laugh at daydreams, but so long as you had the capacity to daydream, there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities which you dreamed. It was like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time for a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind - until one day to you own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't believe in.

One could laugh at day-dreams, but so long as you had the capacity to day-dream, there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities of which you dreamed. It was like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time form a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind, until one day to your own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't believe in.

You can be an aging rock star, but you can't be an aging wannabe rock star.

I begin to rant. I'm special, I have needs, I have a job to do—once I get my act together. I'm going to be important.

She didn't want to change just to be better. Though there was always better to aspire for. It was very confused.

You always knew what you wanted to be didn't you? He asked Edward. More or less. Smart moves, a gynecologist. Never false moves. I was different, I had goals but no direction. Like a map without roads, just places to be.

Remember always what you set out to get, and please don't settle for less.

The last few years had taught her that, bizarrely, there might be more to life than money, heists, and adrenaline. A crazy idea, no kidding, and she wasn't entirely convinced yet, but maybe, just maybe, she could be something more than a thief?

ceiling, then

Immortality is an aim, not a fact.

I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It's the river of the heart, and the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential truth of what each one of us is, and can achieve.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. It doesn't even matter what you are. It's what you try to be that counts.

najlepszÄ… sztuczkÄ… w Ã…¼yciu jest chcie? niczego i dosta? to.

if we envy someone for all the right reasons, we're half way to wisdom.

a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet.

Millions of dreams were born there, around us, every day. Millions of dreams died there, and were born again. The humid air was thick with dreams, everywhere, in my Mumbai.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him, I guess. Or maybe when he sees the things he wishes he had in himself.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

Ambition without direction is like milk without a cup.