“There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.” DreamCuttingAmbitionLettersFulfilledCheerfulFruition Author:Barbara Mertz
“One of my career ambitions was fulfilled working with John [Hurt]. I loved his work long before I ever had the idea of being an actor, so I was nervous to meet him. I was like a fanboy, like that annoying character on 'Saturday Night Live'. I'm sitting there. 'Do you remember when you were in 'Midnight Express'? Remember that scene you were in?' And he doesn't disappoint.” LongIdeasCharacterRememberNightActorsHurtCareersSceneAmbitionSittingNervousAnnoyingFulfilledSaturdayMidnightRemember WhenDisappointSaturday NightSaturday Night Live Author:Gary Oldman
“What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.” MayLostWishAttentionAmbitionElectionInvestmentDisappointedFulfilled Author:Mitt Romney
“If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.” IfsSaidLove IsAmbitionHatredBelovedYearningFulfilled Book:The Satanic Verses Source: The Satanic Verses
“But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!” KnowsMindMayPersonsLongStillsStatesTurnsWishVisionWonderfulImpossibleHappenedAmbitionWeakMiracleDifficultyEaseResolveState Of MindFulfilledUnnecessaryWonderful ThingsHabitual Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative. Our training is of the mind. Our education is for the mind. Our ambitions, our desires, can only be fulfilled by the mind. You can become president of a country, prime minister, not by being meditative but by cultivating a very cunning mind. The whole education is geared by your parents, by your society, so that you can fulfill your desires, your ambitions. You want to become somebody. Meditation can only make you a nobody.” MenWantMindCountryReasonWholeDesireParentPresidentMeditationAmbitionTrainingFundamentalsMinistersReason WhyPrimeFulfilledPrime MinisterCunningBeing MeCultivating Author:Rajneesh
“A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has no obligation to you. But if you live without intentions, without expectations, then miraculously you find that everything that you ever dreamed of is being fulfilled. The moon is reflected in the lake - the lake never asked it, the moon never intended it. Existence goes on spontaneously. Don't bring your desire, your ambition and your expectation; they are the disturbing points. They create a chaos in your mind.” IfsMenFeelsMindDesireExistenceGoes OnMoonAmbitionExpectationsIntentionChaosBoundsObligationFrustrationLakesFrustratedFulfilledDisturbing Author:Rajneesh