Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

—American Proverb

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Dreams are wishes your heart makes.

—American Proverb

A clear conscience is a good pillow.

—American Proverb

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Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

—Edward Young

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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While I was young, when I burned with the love of God, I thought I would convert the whole world to God. But soon I realized that it would be more than enough to convert the people who lived in my town, and I made an effort for a long time, but was not successful. Then I realized that my agenda was still too ambitious, and I focused on the people in my household. But I could not convert them either. Finally I realized: I must work on myself, if I'm really going to have something to offer God. But I didn't even accomplish this.

—Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz

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Happy and content one day, / ambition and desire eat you alive the next. / It's always been this way. Back and forth, / back and forth. That's the way it goes.

—David Budbill

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Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counterproductive but trivial.

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11 Jul 2015 Added