#aspiration

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ↗

— Brendan Francis

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You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

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China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. ↗

— James Lovelock

#aspirations #caps #china #emit #gases

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation. ↗

— Li Peng

#beginning #century #common #cooperation #countries

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#aspiration #greatest #live #tropics

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#ever #everything #face #his #interesting

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs. ↗

— William Howard Stein

#expectations #high #keep #moderate #needs

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#dreams #freedom #success #dreams

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. ↗

— Jane Austen

#self-awareness #self-improvement #wise