Universal Aspiration Quotes

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

I believe the masses everywhere want peace.

While artistes do want peace, it is not their preserve alone. Everyone wants peace just as much.

I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.

Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman, or music, or whatever. The soul yearns for it. Psychology seems to have forgotten that.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.

Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth - not you, not me, not the girl next door - who wouldn't like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.

Superwoman is motivated by power and money and sex, and sex and money and power. Who can't relate to that?

Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.