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“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“And even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star. And when the night winds start to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky. Somewhere out there, if love can see us through then, we'll be together ... Somewhere out there, out where dreams, come true.”
Barry Mann
“The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish you had.”
Grace Mirabella
“If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”
Aristotle
“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.”
Angelina Jolie
“Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.”
Washington Irving
“When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill”
D.H. Lawrence
“It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.”
“He, who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own”
Confucius
