Wish Quotes - Page 6

• Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.

  Pat Tillman

  Military, Voice, Hearing

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• You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Forgiving

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• A wish is a desire without energy

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Achievement, Desire, Energy

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• The wish for healing has always been half of health.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspiration, Healing, Health

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

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• To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

  Claudius

  Evil

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• To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Hiking, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.

  Meister Eckhart

  Good Life, Circles, Goodness

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• If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

  Harvey Mackay

  Inspirational, Believe, Inspire

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• I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Freedom, 4th Of July

  "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.

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• Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.

  John Earl Shoaff

  Challenges

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• I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Happiness, Inspiring, Memories

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• I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Sex, Blue Dress

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

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• If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Infinite, Exploration, Brainstorming

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

  Carly Fiorina

  Mother, Courage, Inspiration

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• Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love.

  Confucius

  True Love, Love You, Judging

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• I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Want, Rooms, Metabolism

  "Kelly Clarkson Won't Obsess About Her Weight" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. April 14, 2015.

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• Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.

  Daniel Pipes

  Determination, Voice, Goal

  "Voices of Islam". New York Post, September 23, 2003.

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• If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Answers, Rational

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• Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Ambition, Weakness

  Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

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• Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

  Seneca the Younger

  Anger, Giving, Judgement

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• How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

  Joseph Story

  Men, Constitution

  Joseph Story (2013). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States”, p.14, Quid Pro Books

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• Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

  Ovid

  Fear, Men, He Man

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• With every kiss, we'll promise this, we'll find a way to light the dawn of all we wish.

  Pocahontas

  Kissing, Light, Promise

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• Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

  Jim Stovall

  Reality, Belief, Remember

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• It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Destiny, Natural, Glorious

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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