Wish Quotes - Page 24

• Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Helping Others, Understanding, Finding Yourself

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• Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychics, Museums, Drug

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• I was having panic attacks. I didn't want to live that way anymore. I was in love and I wanted it to work. I was tired of travelling, tired of the whole scene, just tired. I sat around. I was lazy. I wanted a routine, and I wanted to wake up in the same bed every day, and I got my wish.

  Linda Evangelista

  Tired, Lazy, Bed

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• If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Giving, Arrogance, Helping

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• Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Men, Understanding

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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• I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blow, Dwelling, House

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• Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Space, Mind

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• Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, War, Fighting

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.294, Pan Macmillan

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• I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. Somehow, the typical Porsche people-and I wish them no ill-are not, I feel, my kind of people. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one.

  Rowan Atkinson

  People, Car, Typical

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• ​To go where you're wishing you could go, first you must tie your shoes and step off the porch.

  John Avery

  Shoes, Ties, Firsts

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• Wishing is good for us.
  Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations
  All drive us forward,
  Impel us to make things happen.
  They also tell us a lot about ourselves.
  Our wishes come straight from our core,
  And they are loaded with vital information
  About who we are and who we can become.
  Keeping track of our wishes
  Helps us tap into the energy
  That propels us to go after our happiness.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Air, Track, Energy

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “The Wish List”, p.8, Workman Publishing

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• Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.

  Confucius

  Do Unto Others

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• No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Office, Work Life Balance, More Time

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• A goal without a pan is just a wish.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Goal

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• I've learned when to get out. I've never wasted too much time with the wrong person, and that's one thing I'm proud of. The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking or not having the chance to meet the right person. And if it doesn't feel right, it isn't right. How do you know if something feels right? I think the great defining factor for me is whether I want more. When they drive away, do I wish they would turn around at the end of the street and come back? Or am I fine that they're going home?

  Taylor Swift

  Home, Thinking, Proud

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• I think there was always something that everybody wishes they could relive in high school.

  Neal H. Moritz

  School, Thinking, High School

  Source: collider.com

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• I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

  Yoko Ono

  Beautiful, Mother, People

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• I actually wish I had smaller breasts.

  Shannen Doherty

  Breasts

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• College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come.
  We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.

  Dan Rather

  College, Sides, Pockets

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• A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come.

  Tara Fela-Durotoye

  Land, People, Giving

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• I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.

  Tracy Spiridakos

  Thinking, Done, Loses

  Source: collider.com

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• I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Issues, Historical, Sound

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Reading, Nerd, Literature

  Source: collider.com

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• I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.

  Robert Burns

  Sex, Night, Opposites

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• Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centralized federal government, slow down the juggernaut of czars, health insurance overhaul and anything else this administration and Congress wish to do that is not in the Constitution?

  Cal Thomas

  Government, Doe, Excess

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