Wish Quotes - Page 2

• My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fake Friends

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Life, Cute

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• All pain in life comes from wishing things were different than they are. Conversely, peace and happiness must come from accepting life as it is and breaking through the barriers of illusion to do so... All things that we label good or bad often hold in them surprises if we stay open. Each of us has choice in how we interpret life's events and in this way we are each responsible for our own reality.

  Kristine Carlson

  Pain, Reality, Choices

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• Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

  Phil McGraw

  Motivational, Encouragement, Recovery

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Oct 09, 2011

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• When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Love, Relationship, Crush

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• The wishing gate opens into nothing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Gates

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.368, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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  Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

  Jonathan Davis

  Depression, Depressing, Thinking

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• True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Wise, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  Lucille Ball

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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• If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dream, Believe, Temporary Defeat

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Funny Life, Forget, Notes

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1201, Ageless Reads

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• If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Spiritual, Discipline, Way

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• Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Birthday, Forever

  "There's No Such Place As Far Away" by Richard Bach, 1978.

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• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Kindness, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.418, Рипол Классик

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• We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Past, Action

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.7, Advaita Ashrama

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• The time has come to get clear about who you are and what you choose. There must come moments in every person's life when a decision is necessary. A big decision. A major choice. Such a time is now. What you get to choose today is who you are and who you choose to be, and what you wish to experience in your life. Remember, not to decide is to decide.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Choices, Decision, Today

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 26, 2014

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• It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Struggle, Long, Remember

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• As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Single, Inspiration

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

  C. S. Lewis

  True Love, Famous Love, Falling In Love

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.37, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Life, Contentment

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Children, Crazy, Lying

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

  Neil Gaiman

  Change, Wisdom, New Year

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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