Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Hands Quotes, Wish Quotes

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

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In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Wish Quotes , Trying Quotes

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

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Tags : Alan Zweibel Quotes , Wish Quotes , Lucky Quotes

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

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He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

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One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Yoga Quotes , Wish Quotes

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Wish Quotes , Rich Quotes

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wish Quotes , Misery Quotes

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless

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You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

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It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Wish Quotes , Agents Quotes

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Wish Quotes , Shy Quotes

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mind Quotes , Wish Quotes

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Wish Quotes , Lovers Quotes

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Wish Quotes , Desire Quotes