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• To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.

  Garth Stein

  Life, Joy, Encounters

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Discovery, Accomplishment, Mind

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• My courage comes from my faith. I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Intelligent, Grace, Conclusion

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• The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.

  Tobias Menzies

  Heart, Character, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Ideas, Perfection, Important

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• Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

  William James

  Opportunity, Emotional, May

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.

  Annie Besant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strong

  Annie Besant (2014). “The Spiritual Life”, p.30, Quest Books

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• Ask and it shall be given you; Seek and ye shall find; Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh, receiveth; And he that seeketh, Findeth; and to him that knocketh It shall be opened. Aspire not to have more, but to be more.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian Inspirational, Given, Prayers Not Being Answered

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• He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Play, Psychology, Too Much

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.255, Courier Corporation

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• Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

  Jeb Bush

  Leadership, Country, People

  "Christie uses CPAC to draw contrasts with Bush" by Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2015.

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• Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

  Douglas Conant

  Giving, Leader, Crafts

  "Why Small Interactions Matter". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. August 25, 2011.

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• I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.

  David Suchet

  Meaningful, Appreciation, Views

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Happy, Writing

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• You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Excellence, Levels, Being The Best

  Kimora Lee Simmons (2009). “Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I am not a yogi yet, but I aspire to have more balance in my life.

  Baratunde Thurston

  Balance, Yogi

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• That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

  Helen Keller

  Sunset, Mean, Sky

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• Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Compassion, Self, Joy

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• I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?

  Katrina Kenison

  Simple, Hands, Wind

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• Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself.

  James Nares

  Art, Giving, Effort

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• Christian love must be chased after, aspired to, and practiced.

  Gary L. Thomas

  Christian, Christian Love

  Gary L. Thomas (2010). “Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

  Plato

  Men, Giving, Honor

  Plato, Francis Macdonald Cornford, Alfred Edward Taylor (1985). “The banquet (also known as The symposium)”

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• The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

  Brother Lawrence

  Perfection, Soul, Grace

  Brother Lawrence (2009). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But they've [my children] made me better. They hold me more accountable for who I am and who I aspire to be, and they make me want to be better. And that's not just as a mommy, but as a woman and as an athlete.

  Kerri Walsh

  Children, Athlete, Who I Am

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• What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Inspirational, Dream, Mind

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• My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is being heard by Australian women and girls loud and clear. And the message is: 'Don't aspire to high office,sweetheart, because we'll flay you alive.'

  Jane Caro

  Leadership, Girl, Office

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