#aspiration

That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#got #home #i #just #never

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself. More powerfully and persuasively than from the "shalt nots" of the Ten Commandments, I learned the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. A Wrinkle in Time described that evil, that wrong, existing in a different dimension from our own. But I felt that I, too, existed much of the time in a different dimension from everyone else I knew. There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger. My real, true world. My perfect island. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#books #dreams #escape #journeys #life

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#inertia #motivation #love

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#dreams #find #opportunities #our #our dreams

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#achieve #any #aspirations #harmony #higher

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#aspirations #extraordinary #led #most #reckless

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#aspirations #bottom #dictionary #erased #india

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something! ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#aspiration #challenge #direct #doing #enjoying

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#atheism #only #real #real religion #religion

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children. ↗

— Mark Sanford

#children #families #meager #means #needs