Wishing For Something Quotes

• 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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• 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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• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Years

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• Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true. Believe that for every problem God gives you, He will also provide you with a solution.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Believe, Giving, Wish

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• Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.

  Sarah Dessen

  Opposites, Waiting, Wish

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.98, Penguin

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• The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

  Susan Rothenberg

  Prayer, Everyday, Wish

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• Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend.

  Andrew X. Pham

  Memories, Men, Long

  Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.98, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• It feels strange to have spent much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

  Jenny Han

  Wish, One Day, Strange

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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