Wish Quotes

Be the change that you want to see

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well.

I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.

I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with Him because there is no other way I wish to turn. I came to Him longing for something I did not have. I remain with Him because I have something I will not trade. I came to Him as a stranger. I remain with Him in the most intimate of friendships. I came to Him unsure about the future. I remain with Him certain about my destiny. I came amid the thunderous cries of a culture that has 330 million deities. I remain with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.

It is legal because I wish it.

Be as you wish to seem.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent

I wish thy way. And when in me myself should rise, and long for something otherwise, Then Lord, take sword and spear And slay.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength. I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.

Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.

Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other"側. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

NOT, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist"”slack they may be"”these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

No, scratch the word career. Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.

I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

Every fear hides a wish.

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.

Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!

We must pray to God everyday to show we don't forget that all gifts come from Him. But if some wishes remain unfulfilled we must show our confidence in Him, for He knows best.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

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