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The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
Dodie Smith
Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.
Steven Redhead
Some Wishes won't become true But will lead you to the ultimate Truth
uzair safi
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
Cardinal J. Newman
If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish.
Steve Maraboli
At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.
George Packer
Miki-san... do you truly want that person's dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person's savior for making that dream come true? If you're going to fulfill someone else's dream, that's the time when it's most important to be sure you know your own wish. The two might seem the same, but they're entirely different.
Magica Quartet
My only wish is that my wishes be at rest.
Ruckett
Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?
T.F. Hodge
My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
Jane Austen
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
Greg Anderson
Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.
John Green
Oh, the secret life of man and woman --dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Jean Toomer
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
Proverb
I wish...I wish were dead...And what use would that be to anyone?
J.K. Rowling
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?
Jodi Picoult
The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
Claudius