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Quotes About Wishes

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Dear God, I thank you for that star that I wish up on for my dreams to go far.
~ Unknown
I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.
~ Mary Downing Hahn
He leaned back, the misery in his eyes cutting through me. "But they're only wishes Lia, because you've made promises and so have I. Tomorrow will come, and tomorrow will matter, to your kingdom and to mine. So please, don't ask me again if I wish for something, because I don't want to be reminded that every day I wish for something I cannot have.
~ Mary E. Pearson
The magic of the wishes, of course, was simply in making them, fishing deep for a hidden desire, molding it into words to make it real, and tossing it into a mysterious unknown that you believed was maybe, just maybe, listening.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Sometimes dreams are only dreams, Synové
~ Mary E. Pearson
In this life," he went on, "you got to see what is, as you might say, and then face up to what you wish there wasn't.
~ Unknown
Annie, I hope you and your brother have a safe trip in your magic tree house," said Mr.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other talents, said yes to different offers.
~ Matt Haig
She learned that undoing regrets was really a way of making wishes come true.
~ Matt Haig
To imagine happiness as the achievement of all our wishes and passions is to confuse the legitimate aspiration to inner fulfillment with a utopia that inevitably leads to frustration.
~ Matthieu Ricard
You shall not find, in nature's immense crucible, a single living being that has shown a like suppleness, a similar abundance of forms, the same prodigious faculty of accommodation to our wishes. This is because, in the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
I love you," I told him. "And all of this, our life, is everything I wished to have but wasn't sure I could keep. I never felt like that with Alex, James. I always knew that what we shared wouldn't last. He never belonged to me. Not the way you do.
~ Megan Hart
Sincere wishes come true.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts.
~ Melissa Marr
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.
~ Michael Ende
Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.
~ Unknown
I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.
~ Michelle Kwan
Obviously, this is a huge change with the advent of Lindsey Buckingham not being a part of Fleetwood Mac. We all wish him well and all the rest of it.
~ Mick Fleetwood
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness its opposite never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Alguns dos nossos desejos só se cumprem no outro, os pesadelos pertencem a nós mesmos.
~ Unknown
It was not Hansu that she missed, or even Isak. What she was seeing again in her dreams was her youth, her beginning, and her wishes--so this is how she became a woman.
~ Min Jin Lee
It was not Hansu that she missed, or even Isak. What she was seeing in her dreams was her youth, her beginning, and her wishes—so this was how she became a woman. Without Hansu and Isak and Noa, there wouldn't have been this pilgrimage to this land. Beyond the dailiness, there had been moments of shimmering beauty and some glory, too, even in this ajumma's life. Even if no one knew, it was true.
~ Min Jin Lee
Sho ga nai, sho ga nai. How many times had he heard these words? It cannot be helped. His mother had apparently hated that expression, and suddenly he understood her rage against this cultural resignation that violated her beliefs and wishes.
~ Min Jin Lee