In the excerpt from "What I Hope to Leave Behind," the author Eleanor Roosevelt makes use of the word ambitions, which is a powerful eagerness to do or accomplish something that usually demands perseverance and hard work. Therefore, hopes and aspirations imply a feeling of expectation and desire for something to occur.
"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."