Aspiration Quote by Ossian Everett Mills

“Certainly it is true that we need to maintain independence in certain areas of life. We must not be passive but active agents in…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“We as ambitious human beings can maintain self respect by influencing ourselves to behave as civil human beings and focus on our long term…

— Saaif Alam

“Following what excites and enlivens us is not selfish or irresponsible. It is the most direct way to live in harmony with life itself.”

— Donna Goddard

Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

— Victor Hugo

“What we shall desire for individuals is now clear: strong creative impulses, overpowering and absorbing the instinct of possession; reverence for others; respect for…

— Bertrand Russell

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this…

— Paulo Freire

“Some of us come from families where we were not taught healthy emotional language and habits. We did not get a balanced perspective of…

— Bill P

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to…

— Albert Schweitzer

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

— William Wordsworth

“Everything we do has significance. Every action, every thought leaves an imprint - not only on the self, but on the world, on the…

— Robert Crumb