#aspiration

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#around #aspirations #deeper #destiny #ends

Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. ↗

— Alex Flinn

#fairytale #princess #life

We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and how a craft can be master of an element. I saw the alchemy of perspective reduce my world, and all my other life, to grains in a cup. I learned to watch, to put my trust in other hands than mine. And I learned to wander. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know -- that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#dreams #flying #horizon #dreams

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. ↗

— St. Francis of Assisi

#prayer #spirituality #faith

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. ↗

— Mark Twain

#life #life

My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#aspiration

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#aspiration #aspires #compares #estimates #higher

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#aspiration #convention #disregarded #eagerness #get

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#exclusive #lacks #specific #totality

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#assurance #faith #inspirational #faith