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• In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

  Charles Eames

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Design, Direct

• There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Topics in Dream, Ideals

  Tags in Greedy

• I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal – in this case, the ideal of the pirate – and then becomes something that’s more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

  Will Oldham

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Pirate, Exciting

• I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.

  Catherine Crowe

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Cannot, Themselves

• Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it’s a little bit sad, right?

  Rachel Stevens

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Singing, Acting
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  If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Ideals, Work

  Tags in Foundations, Castle
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  A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Dream, Ideals

  Tags in World

• Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.

  Carl Schurz

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Destiny

• It is worthwhile to live
  and fight courageously
  for sacred ideals.

  O blow ye evil winds
  into my body’s fire
  my soul you’ll never unravel.

  Even though disappointed a thousand times
  or fallen in the fight
  and everything would worthless seem,

  I have lived amidst eternity —
  Be grateful, my soul —
  My life was worth living.

  He who was pressed from all sides
  but remained victorious in spirit
  is welcomed into the choir of heroes.

  He who overcame the fetters
  giving wings to his mind
  is entering into the golden age of
  the victorious.

  Norbert Capek

  Topics in Death, Ideals, Life

  Tags in Heaven, Difficulties

• We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Ideals, Life, Suffering

  Tags in Ethics, Values, Meaning

• A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Expectations, Ideals, Life, Love

  Tags in Responsibility, Duty, Purpose, Meaning

• Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Going, Men

• My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Liberals, Values, Faith, Community

• I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

  Paul Wellstone

  Topics in Ideals, Leadership, Management

  Tags in Self-Confidence, Emphasize, Self-Esteem, Test, Community

• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Reality, Living

• Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Optimism, Idealism, Reality

• Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Reality

• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

  John Ruskin

  Topics in Art, Ideals, Positive, Truth

  Tags in Seeking, Study, Reality

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

  Harold Nicolson

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Judgment

• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Judgment