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Letter "A" » aspiration
«Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Competence,
Family
| Keywords:
aspiration, competence, fathers, mothers, specialize, specialized, specializing
«Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to choose, I do like children who do not know how to read, I say very simply to God what I wish to say, without composing beautiful sentences, and He always understands me. For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.»
Author: Therese of Lisieux
| About:
Love,
Prayer
| Keywords:
aspiration, composing, directed, expands, glance, recite, recited, recites, reciting, sentences, supernatural, supernatural being, The Others, understands, unites
«Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.»
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
(Author, Editor)
| About:
Family,
Happiness
| Keywords:
aspiration, for the time being, Happy Family, Onions
«Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.»
«Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
aspiration, discriminate, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, exact, fulfill, grounds, innate, instinctive, Natural right, natural rights, sentient, sentient beings
«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.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Ambition
| Keywords:
aspiration, aspires, compares, estimates, estimating, lower, produces, vulgar
«Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many»
«Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Commerce
| Keywords:
aspiration, import, imported, imports
«For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys»
«An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
aspiration, estate, landed, landed estate, solid
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