We injure ourselves by wishing; continous inaction cripples the soul.

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

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.

Wishing gets you nothing.

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...

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...

When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.

But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

I was a person full of wishes but without a star.

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

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...

Promise me you’ll never stop dreaming.

Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude.

If you were given one wish, what would you wish for? To wish no more.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Wanting and wishing are very different

Let’s make just a few more steps and secure success forever.

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.

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.

Never wish unto others what you wouldn’t wish for yourself.

But time given to wishing for what can’t be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.

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

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

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.

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

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

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

I would bear it for her if I could.People say that and hardly mean it. I, however, do mean it. But time given to wishing for what can’t be is not only spent, but wasted,...

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

[T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering–not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you’re askin. And when you ask, you’re trying. And all anyone can...

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...

If I had three magic wishes, I’d use the first wish for one more, to replace the one I just wasted wishing for something I already had.

Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own side; it’s where you belong. There you can plant your own grass and tend to it.

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.

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...

Let a prayer speak the wishing of your heart. AFFIRMATION: Anchoring my soul by the immense power of my heart, acknowledging the void within, and may it be full-filled … and so BE it!

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...

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

No use wishing now for any other sin.

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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