Quotes About Wishful

Religion – the wishful thinking of an ape that talks! You know what I think?' he asked rhetorically, trying to distract himself from yet another death. 'Random shit happens, and we turn it into stories and call it sacred scripture—

Those stories you heard? About going to a wonderful place called 'heaven' where there is no more pain or death and you live forever in a state of perpetual happiness? Also total bullshit. Just like all that God stuff. There's no evidence of a heaven and there never was. We made that up too. Wishful thinking. So

We may finally risk the proposition that precisely because the doctor, even at the individual sick-bed, has an almost crazy utopian plan latently in view, he ostensibly avoids it. This definite plan, the final medical wishful dream, is nothing less than the abolition of death.

Our mind is conditioned by the past, and to try to alter what we are feeling right now, especially in the name of being a compassionate spiritual person, is just wishful thinking. This is a crucial realization, because we spend so much of life, and, sadly, so much of our spiritual paths, wishing we were feeling something other than what we are actually feeling in the present moment.

I remember when I was like 9, 10, 11 going into stores and saying, 'Wow! I wish I had this.'

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.

We are all wishful creatures, and we wish backward, too, not only forward, and thereby rebuild the curious, crumbling architecture of memory into structures that are more habitable.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

As John Welwood reminds us in Journey of the Heart: The Path of Conscious Love, "dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love—which is to transform us.

What I mistook for love was simply a powerful form of wishful thinking

Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

the ugliness which by man's sense of wishful thinking becomes a beauty touching us all

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Wishful thinking sometimes had an influence on observation, even trained observation.

Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.

Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.

Definition of failure - wishful sinking!

It makes you wonder if there is anything to astrology after all.' 'Oh, there is,' said Susan. 'Delusion, wishful thinking and gullibility.

To me, you can be young in your mind, in the way you think, but if your body don't come with that, then it's wishful thinking.

Who in there dreams is not omnipotent?