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1 " It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces. "
― Alain de Botton , Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
2 " I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too? "
― Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , Tomorrow's Eve
3 " If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. "
― Calvin Coolidge
4 " We Person-Centred Approach people are as human as anyone else after all, and, as does everyone, must daily face the difference between our aspirations and stated values, and our actual choices and behaviours, and the resulting outcomes. However, we keep giving ourselves a chance to change, again and again, thus more closely approximating our hopes for how we can be together "
― Gay Barfield , Politicizing the Person-Centred Approach: An Agenda for Social Change
5 " Unitary urbanism's point of departure is the changeableness of our aspirations and our activities. We know that neither eternal truth nor absolute beauty exist and that, for this reason, ideal form does not exist. Form that is in constant modulation and in agreement with the unceasingly changing aspects of our existence, such as we will produce it. The environment in which we live influences our activity, but reciprocally this environment is a product of our creative activity. "
― , The Situationists and the City: A Reader
6 " So many problems we will get to the bottom of later, but whose spatial aspect we must grasp right away. If the space of the industrial economy dominates the social space in which the Parisian worker or intellectual develops, to what extent could residential space, cultural space, or political space be planned without it being necessary to first intervene in economic structures?...In short...: to what extent can we freely build the framework for a social life in which we might be guided by our aspirations and not by our instincts? "
