Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

Desire creates its own object.

I've always loved those movies where somebody really wants something, and then the thing they want is right in front of them.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

I believe in goals. It's never a bad thing to have a dream. If something is really what you want to do, just do it. Whatever your goal.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

Show me your dreams. Let me make them come true.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

I had a dream. And it came true.

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

Most of my dreams came true.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.