Quotations about

Wish

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

—Robert A. Heinlein

He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

—Anna Godbersen in Bright Young Things

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.

—Gail Godwin

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

—Carlos Castaneda

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

—Nicolas Chamfort

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

—Juvenal

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

—Mahatma Gandhi