A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1890-06), “Over the Teacups,” No. 7, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 65
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RICHARD: But shall I live in hope?
LADY ANNE: All men, I hope, live so.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard III, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 218ff (1.2.218-219) (1592)
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June 2, 2025: Become constant in mind (i.e., always dwell on)
ಮನ್ಮನಾ ಭವ
manmanaa bhawa
#Udupi #Krishna #Hindu #India #Kannada #Sanskrit #temple #Monday #red #black #prayer #aspiration
Day 31 cont 🗳️📝🗣️🔉📺
The caretaker #PM appearing on the #HateMedia (ABC Press club as defined by 🥔🤓), something I can’t remember #PeterDutton doing or being capable of.
“Through everything the world has thrown at #Australia over the last three years, for all the #challenges our #nation has faced, our #government has held true to those enduring Australian #values of #fairness, #aspiration and #opportunity.
It has been less than three years since Australians voted out the #ScottMorrison (ex PM & Minister for Health, Finance, Treasury, Immigration and Holidays) government. My #colleagues and I know there is more work to do. That is what #drives us.” — #AnthonyAlbanese
Half the battle is attendance. ⚔️
Not a bad summary, nothing on environment, trade or defence… but there is #Policy to back this up. No mention of working with Independents, Greens to achieve these aims.
#AusPol / #Labor / #LNP / #Nationals / #Liberals / #Coalition <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/30/australia-election-2025-live-housing-crisis-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-campaign-final-week-labor-coalition-cpi-inflation-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-68118a758f08f0938cf49176#block-68118a758f08f0938cf49176>
Thought Of The Day #111: Being pleased with your life is to be accepting of yourself. #confidence #aspiration #affirmation [ April 18th 2025 ] https://rons-home.net/en/living-life-lab/personal-growth/thought-of-the-day/2025/4/18
Think I have a long one for #aspiration. Will bang it out when I get home.
Today's Wandering Shop Stories #prompt is #aspiration . Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "aspiration " in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aspiration Join in and tag it with #wss366! #writing #WritingLife #microfiction h/t @extraspecialbitter
"Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."
Cesar Chavez
#quote #Quoteoftheday #ambition #aspiration #dountoothers #service #BeingHuman
A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Seek not to be rich, but Happy.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 89 (1725)
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Chews Life Silicone Rosary and Decade Teethers have safety snap clasps that detach and create a choking risk to young children. #chewslife #teether #rosary #clasps #aspiration #choking #recall
https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHeYGjVuyu5/
People love high Ideals. But they got to be about 33 percent plausible.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1929-02-03), “Weekly Article: Oklahoma Has Gone Zodiac!”
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The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life, and when by means of great wealth homo sapiens can gratify all his whims without effort, the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. The man who acquires easily things for which he feels only a very moderate desire concludes that the attainment of desire does not bring happiness. If he is of a philosophic disposition, he concludes that human life is essentially wretched, since the man who has all he wants is still unhappy. He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 2 “Byronic Unhappiness” (1930)
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A quotation from Anthony Boucher
Man has always dreamed of power. But damn it, man has always dreamed of love, too, and of the rights of his fellow man. The only power worthy of man is the power of all mankind struggling together toward a goal of unobtainable perfection.
Anthony Boucher (1911-1968) American author, critic, and editor [pseud. of William White; also H. H. Holmes and Herman W. Mudgett]
“The Barrier,” Astounding Science-Fiction, Vol. 30, No. 1 (1942-09)
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# laboiteenfer #contentement #deraison #déraison #limites #aspiration #fuite #fuiteenavant
A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Who would attain to summits still and fair,
Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author and poet.
Poem (1906), “Climbing,” ll. 9-10, New Thought Pastels
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Following the Equator, ch. 21, epigraph (1897)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #aspiration #ego #envy #jealousy #love #motivation #pride #success
