#wishes

We often confuse what we wish for with what is. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#sad #wishes #confusion

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#behave #got #helpful #human #human race

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#behind #every #failure #had #missed

Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#wishes #change

The stove, she knew, wished it were a volcano, the humble teaspoons wished they were steamshovels, and the sink wished it were a well so all the others could have their wishes. Yet they all stayed exactly the same no matter what they wished, no matter what they saw and heard. ↗

— Georgess McHargue

#childhood #time #wishes #change

Dreaming is a world where wishes do not exist ; because dreaming is a world where our wishes are fulfilled just by the fact of imagining them so. ↗

— Yannick Heywang

#exist #fulfilled #imagine #imagining #wish

Why only gaze at the stars? Catch one! ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hopes #richelle #richelle-goodrich #stars #wishes

Miki-san... do you truly want that person's dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person's savior for making that dream come true? If you're going to fulfill someone else's dream, that's the time when it's most important to be sure you know your own wish. The two might seem the same, but they're entirely different. ↗

— Magica Quartet

#desires #dream #dreams #intention #intentions

Just because you don’t know how on Earth something might be achieved doesn’t mean you shouldn’t allow yourself to really, really want it. That’s the essence of a dream, the realms of magic and of miracles. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#magic #miracles #wishes #dreams

If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in! ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#imagination #liar #make-believe #poetry #wisher