Quotes about Aspiration

The world is evil only when you become its slave. The world has a lot to offer—just as Egypt did for the children of Jacob—as long as you don't feel bound to obey it. The great struggle facing you is not to leave the world, to reject your ambitions and aspirations, or to despise money, prestige, or success, but to claim your spiritual truth and to live in the world as someone who doesn't belong to it.

Setting our hearts on something involves not only serious aspiration but also strong determination. A spiritual life requires human effort. The forces that keep pulling us back into a worry-filled life are far from easy to overcome.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not to be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I value and trust those w^ho love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance.

A voice said to him—Why do you stay here and live this mean moiling life, when a glorious existence is possible for you? Those same stars twinkle over other fields than these.—But how to come out of this condition and actually migrate thither? All that he could think of was to practise some new austerity, to let his mind descend into his body and redeem it, and treat himself with ever increasing respect.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.