We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
I love, you love, he loves, we love, you love, they love. I wish this was a reality
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
“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.”
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists.
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
What is joy? The wish to live. The joy of life. Who care for awards!
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
I do not wish to become a god or a hero. I only wish to become a tree, growing for centuries without harming anyone.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Man is mortal with his fears, and immortal with his wishes.
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
The wish for healing is the half of health.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.