Wishing Quotes

Wanting and wishing are very different

Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?

But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.

Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude.

Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. let it be enough.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself.

Be careful what you wish for or pray for, because whatever you wish for or pray for, you will have to take care of.

If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up

May you have all the pleasure you've always craved. Nay, may you drown in it!

Wishing gets you nothing.

If we put aside the practicality, we may find our wishes to be very innocent.

Dream while others are sleeping. Dare while others are wishing. Do while others are talking. Deliver while others are quitting.

The Wishing BonesA thousand grandmothers ago Pyrrha and Deucalion repopulated the world with rocks, bones of mother Earth, a generation of my ancestors strained from the mud of a drowned planet.But I’m more interested in my earliest grandmothers, their gills and wetness,before they crawled from that blue expanseand learned to carry the sea within them,in their cells, between their cells, in their eyes.The buoyancy of ocean has never left us.It hides in skin’s complex reservoir where we're selectively permeable and our bodies exchange the smallest life.If we had no need to distinguish ourselves from others we’d be missing the skin that defines lovers and enemies and opens itself to both.

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

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.

May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.

When you keep a strong image of what you want in your mind, and possess the conviction that it is yours by right, you send out powerful vibrations to the farthest reaches of the universe.

There is one difference between mind power and prayer, however, in that subscription to a specific religion, if at all, is not required.

I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had.

Plain Kate greased her boots and bandaged her feet, and soon she would walk like a Roamer born. She helped Drina with the water and the wood, and in the long, wet evenings she carved objarka burji.Plain Kate carved fast and learned slowly. She was bewildered most of the time, but Daj called her mira again, and when she asked Drina what it meant, the girl replied, "It means she likes you. It means your family."Family. It could have kept her walking for a hundred miles. And she did walk far.

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."- from "Dimpellumpzki

My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations.

My mother buys a handful of wishing beans, which just seem to be white, dry beans with no specific magickal import. She will parse these out over the months when she feels her family members most need a wish. She can believe in wishes, since it is the familiar magic of wells, birthdays, and first stars.

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

I wish I could go to Paris right now.

You are no star, Gabby. You're the sky. The rest of us are just circling your orbit.

There are three categories of people exist in the world; “the wanters”, “the wishers” and “the makers.

I am not interested in wishing hard and having the Universe provide all I need without any work on my part.

It’s a funny thing, one day you’re living and the next day you’re not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don’t even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I’d rather be surprised.

[T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering--not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right?

There is no point in asking the universe for love if you cannot love yourself.

To wish bad things for someone else, is like looking for high blood pressure. Because strong people fall, but stand up again.

For us to have great and impressive increase, we need to do than just lying down and wishing for the best. We need to get off the bed, lay demands on ourselves and exert enough pressure, as much as necessary to get the kind increase we need

Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.

(Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.)

Do not waste your life away by wishing for days you may not even get to see.

I wish Italy would stop being a crybaby. I wish he would kick his bad habit of wanting to eat pasta everywhere. I wish he would stop getting a stomachache every time he ate geleto. I wish he would learn to throw a grenade properly. I wish his older brother would stop trying to punch me. I wish-"*babble babble babble*"Germany . . . That's impossible . . .

No use wishing now for any other sin.

I was a person full of wishes but without a star.

We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.

When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.

I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.

The word "universe" means "one tune" or "one rhythm", and when we are in tune or in rhythm with it, it cannot help but respond.

Sometimes all it takes to change your life is to change your routine.

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.

What separates a weak dreamer and a great dreamer is who is wishing and waiting or who is willing and working.

Be ambitious, Spend time wanting, pursuing, wishing. Chase things with passion. Dream but never let the chase diminish what you already have.

Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force.

We are energy, and like all energy, we are in constant change.

Let's make just a few more steps and secure success forever.

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.

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that.