#wishes

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#come #dream #keep #kind #life

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#been #believe #ever #fondly #granted

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds. ↗

— Walter Duranty

#hopes #minds #most #people #problem

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#mirror #our #secret #wishes

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes. ↗

— Eva Gabor

#first #him #hungary #husband #i

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#despised #fears #former #his #latter

Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it. ↗

— Richard Morris Hunt

#best #build #chimney #down #following

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#children #compelled #instruction #justice #man