#attainable

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#deserted #favour #god #goodness #i

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#beauty #become #i #magazines #reading

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #rules #unattainable #love

Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#contentment #curiosity #doubt #envy #foes

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#attainable #helps #measure #probability #psychology

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#errors #man #succession #through #truth

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#come #despondency #everything #give #however

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#catch #chase #excellence #perfection

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. ↗

— Irving Howe

#innocence #knowledge #makes #unattainable #us

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#gifts #goal #god #inspirational #religious