Wishful Thinking Quotes - Page 2

• By choosing better feeling thoughts and by speaking more of what you do want and less of what you don't want, you will gently tune yourself to the vibrational frequency of your Broader Perspective. To see your world through the eyes of Source is truly the most spectacular view of life, for from that vibrational vantage point, you are in alignment with, and therefore in the process of attracting, only what you would consider to be the very best of your world.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Eye, Law Of Attraction

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• Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.

  George Friedman

  Thinking, Outcomes, Impossible

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• Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Thinking, Avoiding Death, People

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• I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Thinking, Views, Talking

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• There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

  Leslie Ford

  Believe, Thinking, Miracle

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• Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Self, Opposites

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• If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

  Nancy Pickard

  Dream, Writing, Commitment

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• Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in?

  David Alan Harvey

  Thinking, Logical Ideas, Have Faith

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• There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Believe, Thinking, Want

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• hope is not a plan of action.

  Susan Jacoby

  Hope, Thinking, Action

  Susan Jacoby (2011). “Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age”, p.126, Vintage

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• Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's Word that as He has anchored us in the past, so He will in the future.

  David Wilkerson

  Optimistic, Biblical, Past

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• Don't settle for wishful thinking; make peace in your heart a reality.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Heart, Reality, Thinking

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• Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over.

  Emma Goldman

  Power, Reality, Thinking

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.487, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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• Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Thinking, Reality, Dawn

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1167, Aum Publications

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• Use whatever excuse you can to vibrate in harmony with those things you've been saying you want. And when you do, those things that are a vibrational equivalent flow into your experience in abundance. Not because you deserve it, not because you've earned it, but because it's the natural consequence of the Law of Attraction. That which is like unto itself is drawn.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.

  Sayyid Qutb

  Heart, Thinking, Roots

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• The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Imagination, Trouble

  Alan Watts (1967). “Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship”

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• Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking.

  Peter Atkins

  Powerful, Thinking, Understanding

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• Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Dream, Thinking, Expectations

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• You should never wish for wishful thinking.

  Rachel Cohn

  Thinking, Wish, Should

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.122, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!

  Adrian Rogers

  Thinking, Rocks, Assurance

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• With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lying, Thinking, Firsts

  "Player One". Book by Douglas Coupland, September 25, 2010.

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• The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to the one who opens the door, who passes on what was found there, and to those who hear what the storyteller brings. The faculty of wonder, like curiosity can make things happen; it is time for wishful thinking to have its due.

  Marina Warner

  Lying, Character, Thinking

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• We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is right—but is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of them—most people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulation—they are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live.

  David Gerrold

  Thinking, People, Work Out

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