Wish Quotes - Page 36

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.

I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.

Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

"I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..."

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.

We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person.

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

I wish they would take me as I am.

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars

It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

I wish I could have built without destroying things.

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