Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.[Saint Augustine] Quote:It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.[Mother Teresa] Quote:If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn't work.[Leo Gallagher] Quote:Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true![Dave Barry] Quote:A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.[Aristotle] Quote:What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.[Saint Augustine] Quote:My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.[George Washington] Quote:I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question.[Yogi Berra] Quote:The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.[Socrates] Quote:There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.[Edward Bulwer-Lytton] Quote:It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.[GK Chesterton] Quote:For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.[Russell Lynes] Quote:When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:You must be the change you wish to see in the world.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.[Erica Jong] Quote:I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.[Thomas Paine] Quote:I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.[Daniel Webster] Quote:I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.[Mother Teresa] Quote:If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.[Christopher Marlowe] Quote:I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.[Albert Einstein] Quote:One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.[Jack Handey] Quote:Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.[Alexander Pope] Quote:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:[Advice is] what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. [Tom Lehrer] Quote:When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. [Epictetus] Quote:I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. [John Adams] Definitions of: wishDefinition: To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.Definition: Desire; eager desire; longing. Definition: Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation. Definition: A thing desired; an object of desire. |
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