100 Quotes About Wishing

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. Tom Bodett

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. Lana Del Rey

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. Markus Zusak

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. . Erin Bow

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

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. . Anthon St. Maarten

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. Cecelia Ahern

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. Carson McCullers

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. Hilary McKay

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

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

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. Sarah Waters

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. George Eliot

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. Dan Groat

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. A.J. Darkholme

We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we imagine or wish for. It's not the same thing. M.L. Stedman

Hope is the fuel within all human souls. Eliminate hope–nothing moves, nothing grows. Richelle E. Goodrich

Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free. Shannon L. Alder

You can get what you want in life. You must reach out with all your heart. Lailah Gifty Akita

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it’s more important to learn to work with what you’ve got, under the circumstances you’ve been given, than wishing for different ones. Charlotte Eriksson

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... Thomm Quackenbush

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

And I wished I could believe him. I wished with all that I had. And when you're eleven, you're on the cusp between still believing wishing worked if you wanted something hard enough and understanding the world is teeth and sharp edges. I wished. I did. I promise you with all that I have that I did. But I knew the teeth. The sharp edges. And they were bigger than wishing. I was only eleven, but I was the product of my upbringing too. Maybe that's why I was able to be the one to leave. Maybe I'd been looking for a reason and latched on to the first one that came, no matter how hard it was. If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that it's easier to leave someone before they leave you. Because eventually, everyone leaves. It's inevitable. T.J. Klune

Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined? N.K. Jemisin

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

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

Beauty is wishing for loneliness without any regret and complains. M.F. Moonzajer

Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking Bangambiki Habyarimana

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. Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

Successful individuals desire things, and then get busy turning them into realities, while a lot of unsuccessful people wish from things, but then spend the rest of their lives wishing for them. Unknown

You can be all that you wish and desire to be. Take the challenge and pursue your most cherished dreams. Lailah Gifty Akita

If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have ‘nothing’ so that I can finally learn how to appreciate ‘everything’. Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

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

Albert Einstein’s equation, E=MC2, is considered to be a theory. Despite being one, we have been able to use it to produce the energy we need to power our cities, as well as the bombs to destroy the same. 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. Stephen Richards

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. Stephen Richards

If it is about education, then all who are college graduates should be wealthy. Stephen Richards

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. Stephen Richards

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. Patrick Rothfuss

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. Karen Quan

Life is too short to be wishing for things that have been proven by many to be achievable. Unknown

Wishing is only for those who are very doubtful of their ability to transcend from all circumstances. Unknown

Wishes only come true to those who work relentlessly. Unknown

Never wish unto others what you wouldn't wish for yourself. Unknown

The habit of wishing is only for those who aren't hungry enough for success. Unknown

You haven't given your dream your all until it is no longer an unfulfilled wish in your life. Unknown

Wishing for something without tirelessly working for it, is like trying to drive a car that has no fuel in it. Unknown

I don't have the time to wish for the things that I positively desire in life because I am always busy working to attain them. Unknown

No use wishing now for any other sin. Elvis Costello

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. Jalina Mhyana

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

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

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. Patrick Rothfuss

Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part. Richelle E. Goodrich

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. Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

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 .. . Hidekaz Himaruya

Star light, Star bright I wish upon the stars tonight… I whispered your name to a star last night Loudly, and so bold I closed my eyes, and saw your face I spoke those words untold I wish I may, I wish I might It shouted from my soul Have this wish, I wish tonight The wish that won’t let go NZuri Za Austin

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

I was a person full of wishes but without a star. Shannon A. Thompson

Send a coin into the abyss and wish for a blissful kiss Sean F. Hogan

My wish before I die, to keep the faith. Lailah Gifty Akita

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 Sunday Adelaja

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

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

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even. Dan Harmon

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

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming. Melina Marchetta

I wish I could go to Paris right now. Emily J. Proctor

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

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

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake. Lemony Snicket

Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true." The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time. P.L. Travers

Stop waiting and start working. Stop wishing and start walking. Israelmore Ayivor

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. Sarah Weeks

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

Wanting and wishing are very different Jonathan Friesen

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. Thomm Quackenbush

I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes. Lailah Gifty Akita

Wishing gets you nothing. Carrie Anne Noble

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

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. Lana Del Rey