I Wish Quotes

As you pass through this life, have you done all that you really wish to for others?

It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work.

A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we move from the exoteric to the esoteric, from religion to mysticism.

Use power carefully. Don't be afraid to have it. Learn balance and wisdom in addition to the unlocking of the kundalini, if you wish to have a happy and enlightened life.

Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we'd live in a perfect world.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

I wish I could play the World Cup; thats one of my dreams.

Definitely, I'm always nice. Sometimes I wish I could be naughty, I'm just a little too boring.

The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.

By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.

Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.

I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.

I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.

[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't play that game. I wish I could, but I can't do it."

I wish I could be the guy who did the right thing at every time but unfortunately, that's not the case.

I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.

I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.