Quotes on Wish

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.

No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this_x000D_ whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.