Wish Quotes - Page 65

"Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the spirit of the beloved moving through things, not lingering long in any one thing or place, no matter how we might wish it.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

I don't know... I've been doing it for 17 years now, so of course I've seen pictures and thought, "Oh my god, I wish I would've never worn that." Yeah, but I did! And it was probably because it was my favorite thing at the time - my clothes always have some kind of emotion attached to them.

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything is within us, every atom of the universe, and that we already possess everything we would wish to find outside of ourselves.

Ringo had this habit of lighting up two cigarettes, one for Maureen at the same time that he lit his own. I remember thinking it was a loving thing to do and wishing John did it for me. But that would have been too obviously demonstrative, maybe, for John.

Don't sacrifice what you wish for most for what you wish for now

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

When I take my last breath, will there be a wish that I had more stuff? I'll wish for only one thing, I think. That I loved better. That I had been better at loving and not being distracted by stuff or accomplishment. This life is so short and it will soon be over. What will we use it for?