Quotes About Aspiration

I cannot own the sky.

In Caradore, Merlan might be regarded as precocious, a prodigy perhaps, but one that needed to be kept in his place. Not here. The Magravandians were aware of the boy's talent and intellect.

She wished for what would happen to be something incredible and life-changing. She wished for it to be important.

She had to reach. She had to want it more than she'd ever wanted anything. She had to grab like a drowning girl for every good thing that came her way and she had to swim like fuck away from every bad thing. She had to count the years and let them roll by, to grow up and then run as far as she could in the direction of her best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by her own desire to heal.

If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.

you fantasize too much. It will make you dream. Dreams will turn to hopes. Hopes will turn to longing. Longing will turn to despair. Despair will turn to laughter. And laughter will get you in trouble.

Don't downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.

Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life.

We sent him to school for him to take this heavy equipment. I worked and cooked over at the school, helped send him there. I said, "I'm not sendin' you to school to come out here and go to work for these strip mines." I'd rather see him in Vietnam than see him doin' strip jobs.

I don't see where people get all this bull about the kid who's gonna be President and being a newsboy made a President out of him. It taught him how to handle his money and this bull. You know what it did? It taught him how to hate the people on his route. And the printers. And dogs.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

il domani potrà albeggiare solo con una certa dose di delirio e di follia.

Una casa es demasiado pequeña, demasiado restrictiva. Quiero el mundo entero, y también las estrellas.

Los visitantes con esperanzas puestas en el comercio apícola me resultan interesantes y conmovedores; muchos son jóvenes y despiertan a la madre que hay en mí. Suelen tener trabajos aburridos que detestan, y la idea de poseer una granja con abejas en el campo es para ellos una fantasía reconfortante. Procuro no desanimarlos, pero a veces no me queda más remedio. En estos tiempos, casi cualquier tipo de trabajo rural condena a los novatos a la bancarrota.

We want. When we stop wanting, we feel dead and want to want more. (p.232)

I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

Everyone has an inspiration story

Live for aims not for dames.

We feed on genius. . . . Great men exist that there may be greater men.

The stories of my heroes provided me with MUCH better things to think about. Important things, meaningful things, real things that mattered and didn't depend on ratings. Learning about them, reading their words made me want to be a better person.

It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. You could make them yourself. I was thrilled to know this. I was twenty-one years old and I was going to move to New York, get a job at a magazine, and become a writer.

Intuition only tells them what they want, not how to achieve it

With time, I am getting to work with actors who are known for their work. I am liking that, enjoying every bit, and I want to soak it all in.

I'm still a young player - I'm still learning - so all I can try to do is soak up what's around me, and I've got great individuals, great people, to learn from and inspire to be like as well as how I want to play, so I'm grateful to be in the position I'm in and learn from the people I am.