Wishes Quotes
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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.
Heraclitus
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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.
Aristotle
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
Demosthenes
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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes
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Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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.
Katherine Marsh
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Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
Marilyn Monroe
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Hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
Joshua Chamberlain
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We must not think that God takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
John Calvin
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That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
James M. Barrie
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Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.
Epictetus
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I think it's ok to have wishes that conflict with each other - it's irrational to try to make them both come true, but not irrational simply to have them.
Nomy Arpaly
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The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this can have what he wants, can do what he wishes and becomes what he wills.
Ernest Holmes
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As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
Georgette Heyer
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If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
John Calvin
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What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.
Sigmund Freud
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By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.
Gautama Buddha
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God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Epictetus
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God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.
John Ruskin
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
Bob Goff
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Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.
Richard Morris Hunt