hopeful aspirations Quotes

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.

I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod?

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Other heights in other lives, God willing.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

Someday I'll wish upon a star.

The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.

As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.