Quotes About Aspiration

and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially

and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can

Quisiera que mi determinación adquiriera determinaciones legendarias.

Giacché ci troviamo al mondo senza che nessuno ce lo abbia chiesto, tanto vale provare a realizzare qualcosa.

The critical point is that knowing we can always get higher can be a real downer. It informs us that we are never going to reach the ultimate point of happiness because there is no ultimate point of happiness.

To feel pleasure in any act or activity, you have to pursue some end other than pleasure.

Oscar Wilde: "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the

find what drives us

one needed to be careful what one wished for.

Dreams are what keep a man going.

He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true.

Mine was a crazy dream- but what dream isn't crazy? Can a dream be a dream and be sensible? No. A sensible dream is a plan. Men like us dream, and our dreams come true because we believe in ourselves.

There is always room at the top.

However, there is nothing left of the American dream. Social mobility in the US today is far lower than it is in Europe. Anyone born into a poor family in the US is very likely to remain poor, and can only watch the story of going from rags to riches in movie theaters or on Netflix.

Yet we can reasonably hope that our ideas, which wait up ahead, will make a clearing for desire.

Indeed, the art of democratic writing demands of its practitioners the aspiration to write to any and all, for any and all. It is a philanthropic art: it requires affection for humanity.

There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go...

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. —T. E. LAWRENCE, SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious haven.

Pure and disposed to mount unto the stars.

Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain to it.

Without hope we live in desire.

Follow your own star!