That love, in the sense of wishing their happiness, will cause your actions to be effective in relation to that person.
Only I keep wishing I could think of a way. . . to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.
[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.
In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.
The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.
Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.
In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but. . . a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.
All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy.
When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.
Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that infuses every petal might specifically run through us, wishing only to lure us into our full potential.
Faith is, before all and above all, wishing God may exist.
What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!
