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Wishful Quotes (page 40)

This little theater of mine has as many doors into as many boxes as you please, ten or a hundred thousand, and behind each door exactly what you seek awaits you. It is a pretty cabinet of pictures, my dear friend; but it would be quite useless to go through it as you are. You would be checked and blinded by it at every turn by what you are pleased to call your personality. You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be... Herman Hesse
What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next? Jodi Picoult
Euripides quote: "Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry."
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry. Euripides
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question. Sigmund Freud
W. H. Auden quote: "Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me..."
Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were. W. H. Auden
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!"
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World! Martin Luther King jr.
James Schuyler quote: "I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers."
I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers. James Schuyler
We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is. Robert Fulghum
May God bless and keep you always, May your wishes all come true, May you always do for others. And let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars. And climb on every rung, May you stay forever young, Bob Dylan
...love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey. Paulo Coelho
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance! Christopher Marlowe
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue. William Makepeace Thackeray
J. K. Rowling quote: "I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . ...."
I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . . J. K. Rowling
For my own part, my constant prayer is that I may know the worst of my case, whatever the knowledge may cost me. I know that an accurate estimate of my own heart can never be otherwise than lowering to my self-esteem; but God forbid that I should be spared the humiliation which springs from the truth! The sweet red apples of self-esteem are deadly poison; who would wish to be destroyed thereby? The bitter fruits of self-knowledge are always healthful, especially if washed down with the... Charles Spurgeon

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