Wish You Quotes - Page 5

• A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wish, Relief, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.155, 谷月社

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• I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Hands, Mind

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.26

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• Many flatter themselves and consider themselves to be good, humble, and meek, but they will discover the contrary under temptation. Do not not become despondent in temptations, then, but give all the more thanks to God that He thus brings you to what is hidden in your heart - the knowledge of yourself - and wishes you to be corrected and be saved.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Heart, Humble, Giving

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• Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Memories, Blow, Childhood

  Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.156, St. Martin's Press

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• Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving

  Gil Fronsdal

  Wish, Intention, Craving

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• Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view—and your eyes are full of happy tears—and you want to sing—and wish you had wings! And then—you can’t stay there, but must continue your journey—you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Distance, Eye, Journey

  Lloyd C. Douglas (2012). “The Robe”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How much I wish I could tell you, Dad
  How much you mean to me....
  But there are no words to say
  How much I admire you...
  appreciate you...
  thank you for everything you've done.
  love you
  Actually, there are
  I've just used them
  How much I wish you
  A happy, happy birthday Dad

  John Walter Bratton

  Dad, Love You, Mean

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• The time will come when we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain will be dropped between us and the United States. When the time comes, brethren and sisters, you will wish you had commenced sooner to make your own clothing. I tell you, God requires us to go into home manufacture; and, prolong it as much as you like, you have got to do it.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Home, Wish, United States

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• You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Mistake, Motherhood, Parent

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• Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Thinking, Wings

  Phillips Brooks (1906). “The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings”

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• I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

  April Winchell

  Wish, Thursday, Tolerable

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• You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent

  Andrew Davidson

  Thinking, Wish, Glad To Be Alive

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.161, Canongate Books

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• I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!

  Tommy Dorsey

  Wish, Important, Dodge

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love

  Rachael Yamagata

  Wish, Wealth

  Song: I Wish You Love

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• But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well

  Patty Griffin

  Wish, Way, Darling

  Song: Nobody's Crying, Album: 1000 Kisses

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• Be the leader you wish you had.

  Simon Sinek

  Leader, Wish

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2013

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  The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Success, Winning

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• [Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

  Susan Cain

  Motivation, Inspiration, Journey

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• Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.

  Andy Stanley

  Wish

  Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.42, Zondervan

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• I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

  Maurice Sendak

  Live Your Life, Wish, Good Things

  "Celebrating 30 Years Of 'Fresh Air' As A Daily NPR Program". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, ypradio.org. May 12, 2017.

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• Don't ask for the task to be easy... just ask for it to be worth it
  Don't wish it was easier... wish you were better
  Don't ask for less challenge... ask for more skill
  Don't ask for less problems... and for more wisdom
  It's the challenge that makes the experience.
  Life and it's colour and meaning and adventure for you is this collection of experiences.
  To wish them away is to wish your life away.

  Jim Rohn

  Adventure, Skills, Challenges

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• People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.

  David Gilmour

  Speak English, People, Singing

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

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• Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

  Laozi

  Wish, Bows, Moderation

  Laozi (1999). “Laozi”

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• When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hurt, Healing, Acceptance

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• O, blackberry tart, with berries as big as your thumb, purple and black, and thick with juice, and a crust to endear them that will go to cream in your mouth, and both passing down with such a taste that will make you close your eyes and wish you might live forever in the wideness of that rich moment.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Eye, Purple, Forever

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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