#aspiration

Because fate would not slight me so unspeakably. I'd seek a noon-day sun if I were paired with one such as you." "Such as me," she repeated blandly. She'd been mocked too often over her lifetime to take offense. Her skin was as thick as armor. "Yes, you. An ignorant, mortal Kmart checkout girl." He took the sharpest knife from his place setting, absently turning it between his left thumb and forefinger. "Kmart? I should have been so lucky. Those jobs were hard to come by. I worked at my uncle's outfitter shop." "Then you're even worse. You're an outfitter checkout girl with aspirations for Kmart." "Still better than a demon. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#iad #lothaire #aspiration

... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#focus #god #humanity #mistakes #perfection

I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t let you go. It’s not enough to write simply because you think it would be neat to be published. You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#writing #aspiration

I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not. ↗

— Jake Black

#aspiration

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#being #desire #evolution #human #yearning

Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up. ↗

— Victoria Addino

#inspirational #motivation #motivational #positive #positive-attitude

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#demon #depth #experience #god #his

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#desire #expectations #fortitude #goals #golf

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations. ↗

— Alexandre Vinet

#aspirations #ceased #god #human #never

There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond. ↗

— Corey Hart

#any #aspirations #being #bond #career