Aspirations Quotes

“Sometimes it looks like you're going nowhere or that you're headed in the wrong direction. I'm learning that the decision itself is rarely the point. The point is becoming more fully ourselves in the presence of God, connecting with Him and with each other, and living our lives as though we believe He is good and beautiful. The point is being honest about where you are and what you need and then looking around in your own community for people to walk with you and with whom you can walk. I spent years wishing people would support me only to later realize I was waiting around for something to come to me when I was perfectly capable of going out and getting it. I'm convinced God is less interested in where we end up then He is in who we are becoming. Whether we're employed or unemployed, encouraged or discouraged, filled with vision or fumbling in the fog. More than anything, our Father just wants to be with us. The most common way He shows His "withness" to us is in the actual, physical presence of other people.”
― Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

“I think that what fear fears is that we’ll actually take the step.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t pay attention to the size of the mountain in front of you. Rather, think about what the view from the summit is going to be like.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As a kid I used to sit on this muscular branch in the old apple tree. And the branch was high enough to make you feel like you were above the earth, but low enough to make you feel that the fall wouldn’t kill you. And it wasn’t until I was adult that I realized that the fear of heights is in reality the fear of the fall. And because that’s the case, we rarely get into the treetops.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, LPC

“Can I do something?” is a far different question from “will I do something?” For the first is a question of ability, while the second is a question of ability rendered irrelevant by passion.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I think that there’s real wisdom in leaving the old year behind you as you step into the New Year. However, if you’re foolish enough to leave the lessons behind as well, it won’t matter that you left the old year behind because you’re going to repeat it all over again anyway.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“That which is possible is only the seedbed for that which is impossible. And therefore, if we neglect to plant liberally we might live lives full of the possible, but we will never hold the harvest of the impossible.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life occurs somewhere between our aspirations and our just desserts.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Maybe it was for the better. Teach them early that dreams and wishes are things that bring only pain, that nothing comes for free, that for every piece of good fortune, somehow and somewhere the universe will balance itself out with misfortune.”
― J.Y. Yang, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“In the process of acquiring what you don't have, ensure you don't lose what you have.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Vision is not something that’s scared by the fact that what it’s visualizing doesn’t exist. Rather, what it fears is that it does and therefore it’s no longer vision.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Finally, I must acknowledge, before anybody beats me to it, that I am not particularly good at doing most of the things that I recommend in this book. I am often outraged, I rarely resist flattery, I frequently argue in ways that are unnecessarily critical and hurtful, and I have a genuinely difficult time displaying charity or kindness. The figure I refer to as 'me' in these pages in an aspirational me and not the real thing, and anything I have learned, I have learned by doing things badly. As Robert Browning's Andrea del Sarto mused, 'Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?”
― Michael Austin, We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition

“Aspirations without implementation is little more than a wish list.”
― Prof.Salam Al Shereida

“Pull every dream that you’ve ever had from all of the places that you’ve abandoned them, brush them off, set them in front of yourself, run the fingers of your heart over each of them, fight the lie that you’re not enough to achieve them, and realize that the dream was not too big. Rather, the belief in yourself is too small.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The most spectacular successes arise from those sacred dreams that have been repeatedly bludgeoned by their critics and who’s refusal to fall bludgeons the critics.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The dream-retarded brain was wretched at contorting itself to imagine other aspirations.”
― Leah Vincent, Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood

“If you’re still alive, you’re alive because something is not yet accomplished. As such, your goal should not be to spend your life waiting for the end of your life. Rather, your goal should be to realize that there’s something urgent to do with the rest of your life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Mais quand on rêve à de grandes choses, c’est pas simple de n’avoir sous la main que des petites choses.”
― Erik L'Homme, Déchirer les ombres

“I do not doubt the ability of mankind to aspire to lofty ideals and the most pristine of principles. But what I doubt is the willingness of mankind to incur the sacrifices involved in moving from aspiring these things to actually embracing them. And in such a conundrum as this, I would suggest that to stop at ‘aspiring’ and never move to ‘embracing’ is without a doubt the greatest sacrifice of all.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As a hunter needs to constantly keep an eye on his trap, we also need to hunt high and low to service our goals and aspirations.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The utterly frightening thing about great things is that we don’t know where they’re taking us, we can’t control them, and we’ll never be able to return to what we left. And are those things not the things that make great things great?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My future aspirations involve living under bridges with my belongings in a shopping cart.”
― Steven Magee

“Every official Organization for the Defense of Fauna and Flora had blacklisted him: his 'methods' were deplored and he was reproached also with having often been mixed up in political struggles. And that was true. The roots were innumerable, infinite in their variety and beauty, and some of them were deeply implanted in the human soul — a ceaseless tormented aspiration, a need for infinity, a thirst, a presentiment, a limitless expectation: liberty, equality, fraternity, dignity...”
― Romain Gary

“Peer Qvist, grasping the Bible in his hands and reaffirming to the Court his determination to carry on his defense of the whole infinite variety of roots which Heaven had planted in the earth and also in the depths of the human soul — roots which gripped them like a premonition and a longing, a tortured aspiration, a craving for justice, for dignity, freedom and love.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“To run from reality is to avoid the very thing that our dreams are made of.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The amount of energy that I possess always falls wincingly short of the size of my dreams. Therefore, such a horribly frustrating contradiction has driven me to the singular conviction that the only dreams that God has given me are the dreams that cannot be achieved without Him.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You can get someone to buy a gym membership with an aspirational message, but to get them to go three days a week requires a bit of inspiration.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“don’t assume that

bc they already have a million followers

&a thousand comments,

they don’t need yours

a thousand comments

none of them come from your perspective”
― Malab, The Komorébi, The Breast Mountains Of All Time

“Wonder won’t necessarily speak our language, which doesn’t mean that it’s not speaking a language.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“To make the ‘shadow’ the tree is to try and climb something that’s always flat and constantly moving. However, it’s something from which we’ll never fall. And maybe that’s why we live in the shadow of dreams rather than living out our lives actually climbing one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough