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Letter "W" » Wishes
«I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.»
«It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.»
«It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.»
Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
| About:
Dreams,
Effort,
Evil,
Food,
Fulfilment,
Goodness,
Health,
Hunger,
Illness,
Rest,
Wishes
| Keywords:
exertion, health food, sickness, to be filled
«In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.»
«Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
God,
Wishes
| Keywords:
Almighty, Almighty God, chains, forbid, for dear life, Give Me Liberty, Liberty Or Death, purchased, slavery
«He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.»
«He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted»
«He who can follow his own will is a king»
Author: Irish Sayings
| About:
Wishes
«If wishes were horses beggars would ride»
«If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Power,
Wealth,
Wishes
| Keywords:
ardent, disappoints, eye, for anything, passionate, possibility, potential, The Eye, wealth
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