Wishing Quotes

Tom Bodett

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.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Thomm Quackenbush

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

Patrick Rothfuss

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

Markus Zusak

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.

Janet Fitch

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

Ryan Lilly

The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.

Karen Quan

Do you ever think of me when you look up at the moon and the stars? When you look into the horizon as the sun sets? We're looking at the same sun, and the stars may burn brighter where you are, but I can't see them, and they're still there. I spend nights trying to see the stars that you see, but I end up seeing you in the stars instead.

Lisa Bedrick

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

My wish before I die, to keep the faith.

Angie Karan Krezos

Let a prayer speak the wishing of your heart. AFFIRMATION: Anchoring my soul by the immense power of my heart, acknowledging the void within, and may it be full-filled ... and so BE it!

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Amber Garibay

We were each of us trying; trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.

Penelope Fitzgerald

But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.

Penelope Fitzgerald

I would bear it for her if I could.
People say that and hardly mean it.
I, however, do mean it. But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.

Hilary McKay

Make a wish," said Indigo.
Rose made a wish and then asked, "Why?"
"That's what I always do. Wish on the moving ones."
"Does it matter how fast they move?"
"I don't think so."
"Can you wish on airplanes, too?"
"Oh, yes.

Carson McCullers

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want-I want-I want-was all that she could think about-but just what this real want was she did no know.

Cecelia Ahern

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Believe in the beauty of your dreams.

A.J. Darkholme

Everything can be achieved through gradual steps – one small step at a time: overcoming fears, fulfilling dreams... anything you wish to be different from the way it is.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish you courage to pursue your dreams.

J.R. Rim

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.

Lana Del Rey

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.

Thomm Quackenbush

You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you...

Paul Bamikole

We injure ourselves by wishing; continous inaction cripples the soul.

Stephen Richards

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

Stephen Richards

For that thought to be strong, however, it must be free of doubt, for doubt weakens the will, weakens the response of the universe, and slows the manifestation of desire.

Stephen Richards

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

Stephen Richards

You cannot give out a negative frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you.

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