It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. -Southey
He that stays in the Valley, shall never get over the Hill. -Thomas Fuller
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing — then we truly live life. -Greg Anderson
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better, nobler, holier than it knows now. -H.W. Beecher
We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance. But in truth the conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts. -unknown
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. – Louisa May Alcott
Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void. -Seume
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realises itself. -Mrs. Jameson
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations. -Vinet
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. – Woodrow Wilson
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow into them. -Unknown
Aspirations after the holy–the only aspirations in which the soul can be assured it will never meet with disappointment. -Maria McIntosh
The desires and longings of man are vast as eternity, and they point him to it. -Tryon Edwards
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