Wishing Quotes

There is one difference between mind power and prayer, however, in that subscription to a specific religion, if at all, is not required.

~ Stephen Richards

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

~ Dan Harmon

May you have all the pleasure you've always craved. Nay, may you drown in it!

~ Ahmed Mostafa

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

~ Melina Marchetta

I wish I could go to Paris right now.

~ Emily J. Proctor

Sometimes all it takes to change your life is to change your routine.

~ Stephen Richards

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.

~ Lemony Snicket

Michael, I never expected the wish to come true.The Trout, Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.

~ P.l. Travers

Stop waiting and start working. Stop wishing and start walking.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.

~ Sarah Weeks

If we put aside the practicality, we may find our wishes to be very innocent.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Wanting and wishing are very different

~ Jonathan Friesen

My mother buys a handful of wishing beans, which just seem to be white, dry beans with no specific magickal import. She will parse these out over the months when she feels her family members most need a wish. She can believe in wishes, since it is the familiar magic of wells, birthdays, and first stars.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Wishing gets you nothing.

~ Carrie Anne Noble

For that thought to be strong, however, it must be free of doubt, for doubt weakens the will, weakens the response of the universe, and slows the manifestation of desire.

~ Stephen Richards

Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.

~ Lana Del Rey

[T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering--not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right?

~ Melissa Senate

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.

~ Diane Meier

When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.

~ J.r. Rim

If you were given one wish, what would you wish for? To wish no more.

~ J.r. Rim

To wish bad things for someone else, is like looking for high blood pressure. Because strong people fall, but stand up again.

~ Fasela Oosterwolde

We were each of us trying, trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.

~ Amber Garibay