#aspiration

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#come #happened #never #old #pass

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#desires #emotions #fears #form #human

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache. ↗

— Iain Pears

#contentment #desires #dreams #longing #dreams

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#anger #aspiration #control #forgiveness #grow

The audience looked at him. They felt he had no chance. They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which he aroused in most people. And so, for the first time, they could see him as he was: a man totally innocent of fear. The fear of which they thought was not the normal kind, not a response to a tangible danger, but the chronic, unconfessed fear in which they all lived. They remembered the misery of the moments when, in loneliness, a man thinks of the bright words he could have said, but had not found, and hates those who robbed him of his courage. The misery of knowing how strong and able one is in one's own mind, the radiant picture never to be made real. Dreams? Self-delusion? Or a murdered reality, unborn, killed by that corroding emotion without name - fear - need - dependence - hatred? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#courage

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dreams #hopes #inspirational #life #dreams

Even goats may have starlight in their eyes. ↗

— Robert W. Service

#dreams

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations ↗

— Bryant McGill

#love #respect #love

I nodded again, but I knew I would not grow up to drive a bulldozer. It would be awful to be dirty all day like these men. I didn't say it, but at best I would keep one in the backyard, like a goat. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#growing-up #work #men

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

— Janet Evanovich

#aspiration