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Wish Quotes - Page 84

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

"Spiritual Solutions #23: Law of Least Effort, Healthy Produce" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

David Mamet (2015). “Mamet Plays: 2: Reunion; Dark Pony; A Life in the Theatre; The Woods; Lakeboat; Edmond”, p.286, Bloomsbury Publishing

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

"David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters - a classic interview". Interview with Charles Shaar Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Dalai Lama, Paul Ekman, Ph.D. (2008). “Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion”, p.163, Macmillan

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.57, BookCaps Study Guides

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.126, The Planet

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

"La Villeggiatura", I, 12, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 182-83, 1922.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt