Quotes About Wish

she carries with her an almost-tangible expectation that your own deepest wish, like hers, is to serve a greater purpose.

Compassion is the wish to relieve beings of suffering.

we define love as 'the wish to give happiness to others.' If we practice love, then compassion arises quite naturally, for it is 'the wish to free others from suffering.

He] didn't like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

The things I saw and things I missed- The many, many bloody things I fucking missed- It's just another morning; another morning when I wish I wasn't here.

It was raining so hard now that the whole city looked underwater. I wished to Christ it was, that the rain would drown the people and wash the place the fuck away.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

Do not collect passion into the equation. It is a dangerous foe, Theodora, like keeping a lion in the garden. It might seem safe enough, but it might well destroy you. No, do not yearn for passion. Ask instead for contentment, happiness. Those are to be wished for.

Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You have to hope, so I let that in too. You have to. To want things and go for them and believe, even in impossible situations...Hope was what you had when you had nothing else. Hope was the perfect shiny top on the Christmas tree, the glowing halo of every wish, the endless beacon of a lighthouse bringing tormented ships home at last.

Oh, the power of the delete. It felt fabulous. I wished I could go around deleting like crazy. I'd delete suspicious spots on X-rays and malls at Christmas, car troubles and tragic events in history, the world's and my own.

Go for your goal, be ambitious. Do what you dream, unlock your wishes.

Manifestation without action is only a wish.

Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope

It does not cost you any money to dream.

Don't just wish and dream—take action to make it happen.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!

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Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning. How could one not wish for that with all one's heart? How could one not lend one's feeble resources to bringing it about?

his dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

The spirit of the way is surely there, in the wish to wander through the world in order to escape it and to find others where there is nobody.

Her hatred is a living succubus, vast enough and quick enough and wicked enough to crest up from her heart and take wing, to expand across the hundreds of miles between them, to engulf the whole city of Acapulco, to veil the room in which he's standing, to overshadow him and overcome him, to slip into his mouth and choke him from the inside out. She hates him so much she can murder him from sixteen hundred miles away, just by wishing for it.