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Wishful Quotes (page 84)

The sense of wishing to be known only for what one really is is like putting on an old, easy, comfortable garment. You are no longer afraid of anybody or anything. You say to yourself, 'Here I am --- just so ugly, dull, poor, beautiful, rich, interesting, amusing, ridiculous -- take me or leave me.' And how absolutely beautiful it is to be doing only what lies within your own capabilities and is part of your own nature. It is like a great burden rolled off a man's back when he comes to want... David Grayson
Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so someone bursting out in such ecstatic laughter is without memory and desire, for he is emitting his shout into the world's present moment and wishes to know only that. Milan Kundera
Paul Theroux quote: "I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it."
I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Paul Theroux
John Fowles quote: "Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were..."
Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal. John Fowles
Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is one thing you cannot get looking for it. If you look for the truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft... C. S. Lewis
I don't want a new man."I'll be dead someday," my mother said. "And then what? You'll wish you had someone."I have a hamster. Janet Evanovich
....With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn’t anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time. Walker Percy
You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it. Charles Dickens
Amit likens fashion to a mask, and style to beauty of countenance. Style, he feels, belongs to the literary elite, who live by their own wishes. And fashion is for the ordinary lot, who make it their business to please other people. . . . You may view a professional dancing girl beneath the awning of a public marquee; but for the first glimpse of the bride’s face during the shubhodrishti ritual, a veil of Benarasi fabric is required. The marquee belongs to fashion, the Benarasi veil--which... Rabindranath Tagore
Suzanne Collins quote: "I wish I could think of a way to show them that they don't own..."
I wish I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me. If I'm going to die, I still want to be me. Suzanne Collins
Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart. Mary Oliver
And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason, only one, why, flinging decency to the winds, you demeaned yourself by becoming a baker.' 'Hunger. W. Somerset Maugham
Then he put in a call for Nicole in Zurich, remembering so many things as he waited, and wishing he had always been as good as he had intended to be. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Austen quote: "I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but..."
I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but like every body else, it must be in my own way. Jane Austen
Lao Tzu quote: "If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind."
If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind. Lao Tzu

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