Quotes About Aspiration

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

Creo que todos soñamos. ¿Cómo, si no, conseguir a veces que la vida resulte soportable?

She would try to paint. She would always try, for the road to perfection held an irresistible lure, even if the destination remained always tantalizingly just beyond the farthest horizon.

Of course, it was all a wild dream, anyway. She could never enter into high society again.

Life could never offer what she most dreamed of.

Sometimes our dreams lead us in the wrong direction and it would be foolish to continue pursuing them out of sheer stubbornness or the fear of disappointing others. There are other dreams waiting to be dreamed—the right dreams, the ones that will lead to contentment.

She wished that somewhere in her future there could be a man who would make the world an exciting place in which to live.

Some people look forward to going to heaven after they die," he said. "For years after I purchased it, Rose Cottage was the earthly heaven to which I aspired.

Raise your sights, sugar. Aim low all you'll hit is rats, snakes and rock bottom from Epitaph

Sometimes it's enough just to know that if you believe hard enough and long enough, your wishes can come true.

Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you.

The world has need of dreamers as well as shoemakers.

Do you think the wren ever dreams of a better house?

How shall I go on, with my introspective and ambitious life?

Try to find the right place for yourself. If you can't find it, at least dream of it.

It is supposed that a writer writes what he knows about and knows well. It is not necessarily so. A writer's subject may just as well, if not more likely, be what the writer longs for and dreams about, in an unquenchable dream, in lush detail and harsh honesty.

am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing toward you.

Try to find the right place for yourself. If you can't find it, at least dream of it.

He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time, and liked yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow. When