Wishing And Wanting Quotes

#1. The first thing one must want, in order to gain anything, is to be himself gaining. Don't confuse sterile wishing with true wanting.

Edna Robinson

#2. It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised.

Dan Groat

#3. And yet here I am - torn: wanting
to pull him closer, saving him, and at the same time
wishing I could hop on the back of his motorcycle and,
for once, allow someone to save me.

Katie Klein

#4. She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#5. Be ambitious, Spend time wanting, pursuing, wishing. Chase things with passion. Dream but never let the chase diminish what you already have.

Unknown

#6. In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved.

Ralph Alfred Habas

#7. So much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.

Emily Giffin

#8. My heart ached inside me, torn between wanting to stop and wishing the would go on forever

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Price Pritchett

#10. My prayers and dreams are wrapped up together, vague and contradictory. "Let me leave my mark in the world," I say to the air around me. I don't want to feel so invisible, yet I'm torn between wishing to move away from this place and wanting it to be me and I it.

Laurel Corona

#11. The secret to changing your life is in your intentions. Wishing, hoping and goal setting cannot accomplish change without intention. What is needed is a shift from the inert energy of wanting to the active energy of doing and intention.

Wayne Dyer

#12. For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

W.C. Sellar

#13. Rikpa literally means "intelligence" or "brightness." Behind all the planning and worrying, behind all the wishing and wanting, picking and choosing, the unfabricated, wisdom mind of rikpa is always here. Whenever we stop talking to ourselves, rikpa is continually here.

Pema Chodron

#14. Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory.

G. Campbell Morgan

#15. What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

Fernando Pessoa

#16. I don't think we ever really live in the present; instead, we're either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That's where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing.

Jonathan Hull

#17. I lost all those years, only to end up in the same place, wanting you and wishing I hadn't ever let you go.

Penelope Ward

#18. No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#19. I get lost in you," I whisper, wishing I could see her face but not wanting to move her. "Mm," she says. "But it's the kind of lost that's like being found.

Kristen Proby

#20. Wanting and wishing are very different

Jonathan Friesen

#21. Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."
- from "Dimpellumpzki

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. All the joy the world contains
Has come through wishing happiness for others.
All the misery the world contains
Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.

Shantideva

#23. The wanting to be different in order to be perceived as better, yet wishing I didn't have to try so hard.

Andie Mitchell

#24. I've been telling myself this was being alive. This here. This ... hiding. Wishing. Dreaming. Wanting. And all the while, what does anyone else see when they look at me?

Steven Erikson

#25. But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.

Patrick Rothfuss

#26. She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

Patrick Rothfuss

#27. And sometimes, sometimes, wanting things, wishing for, working for them, is a good thing. Otherwise, we become nothing but spoiled boys and girls frustrated that we don't get every new toy we see.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#28. Wishing is for things you can't get on your own. Wanting is for things you can.

Abbie Zanders

#29. When a mother dies, a daughter grieves. And then her life moves on. She does, thankfully, feel happiness again. But the missing her, the wanting her, the wishing she were still here - I will not lie to you, although you probably already know. That part never ends.

Hope Edelman

#30. Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#31. Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own side; it's where you belong. There you can plant your own grass and tend to it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. 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