Quotes About Wishes

We were both dutiful, of course, my mother because she was a dutiful woman: I myself felt less humble but knew that life was only simple when one concurred with the wishes of others. In itself this is a dangerous weakness, but it seemed obligatory at the time.

Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.

We always place that little word "but" after our wishes and desires, feeling deep down that there are some things too good to be true.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

Many happy returns, love Robin x

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore

Za vasheh zdahrov-yeh

What this world doesn't have is the three-wishes, go-to-the-ball-and-meet-your-prince, happily-ever-after kind of magic. We have all the mangling and malevolent kinds. Who *invented* this system?

Wishes, wishes. Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true

Wishes, wishes, I told him, Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true.

It is the food of my hopes, the object of my wishes, the only enjoyment of my life - Alexander Hamilton

I don't have the gift to aptly describe the rest of that evening, except to say it was a Christmas Eve beyond all gasping wishes

But...you could have whatever you wished. Exactly, he says, nuzzling my neck. But, I say, you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage. Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. To each his own magic, he says and kisses me again.

She has a scent that is familiar and comforting, like all the things you wish you could take with you on your travels to make you feel less alone.

All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all. When it does anything more - when it tries too hard, for example, when it worries, when it becomes apprehensive about the future - it lowers the effectiveness of those forces and may even cause the devitalized body to fall ill. In my present state, awareness was not referred to as ego; it was, so to speak, on its own.

And anyhow the body seemed perfectly well able to look after itself. In reality, of course, it always does look after itself. All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.

So plans were useful only in revealing what people wished for. If you wanted to know what they would actually do, then the only way of finding out was by watching them and seeing what they did. Then you would know what they might do in the future—because most people did what they had always done. That

Don't just wish for your dreams to come true, but passionately want them! Don't just hope for your dreams, but know they are coming to you right this minute! Don't fear that good things only happen to other people, but know that good is for everyone, including you! Don't just request that your divine path come true.

May your troubles be less Your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness Come through your door.

She throws her coin into a fountain already filled with hopeful coins, yet wonders if the wishes might become tangled.

Careful what you wish for; you just might get it all.

If I had my life to live over, I would never dream

Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.