#aspirations

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. ↗

— Adam Smith

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when you shoot for the stars, you can't ever look back. ↗

— Brittany Perloff

#dreaming #dreams #goals #happy #inspirational

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

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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. ↗

— Jacob Lew

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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

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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

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The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. ↗

— Richard Owen

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