Quotes on Wish

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, 'I wish I had', or 'I'm glad I did.'

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

For life affords no higher pleasure, than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy... To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.