Wishes Quotes
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The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.
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The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.
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One doesn’t just chuck away the story of one’s life, however much one wishes it had read differently.
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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.
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Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
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The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.
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I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.
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Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.
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The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. Meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.
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A curious horror overtook him, then. His skin crawled; the back of his neck turned damp and cold. I can’t go yet, he thought. It’s not fair! He shuddered. The void seemed to speak to him. Fairness has nothing to do with it. This will happen, and your wishes are meaningless.
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Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.
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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.
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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
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We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.
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You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.
