Wishing For Things Quotes

• It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Witty, Giving Up

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1147, Wordsworth Editions

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

  161 Copy quote

  Show source

• I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

  Lana Del Rey

  Beautiful, Dream, Stars

  35 Copy quote

• It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.

  Lana Del Rey

  Appreciation, Trust No One, Wish

  "Lana Del Rey: Ride". Short, Drama, Music, www.imdb.com. 2012.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.

  Kristin Cashore

  Wish, Doe, Happens

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.77, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stop wishing for things you complain you have not, and start making the best of all that you've got.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Advice, Wish, Complaining

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “From the Heart: One Minute Devotions”

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Funny, Time, Insperational

  22 Copy quote

• I used to lie here like this all summer long,' I tell her. 'I'd come up here and just stare at the sky.' She rolls over on her back so she's staring up as well. 'Bet this view hasn't changed much, has it?' What she says is so simple i almost laugh. She's right, of course. 'No. This looks exactly the same.' I suppose that's the secret, If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Lying, Simple

  4 Copy quote

• i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.

  Lauren Oliver

  Secret, Wish, Looks

  5 Copy quote