When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily TomlinTag: humor inspirational funny goals-in-life wish
My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand RussellTag: philosophy belief skepticism desire wish beliefs
You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.
Elizabeth GilbertTag: wish
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Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma GandhiTag: inspirational philosophy change action misattributed-to-gandhi wish
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
George EliotTag: living wish hunger wishing longing
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true.
Tag: truth honesty deception believe lie desire wish blindness self-reflecting
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.
Marilynne RobinsonTag: loss foreshadowing shadow need wish lack longing crave craving wholeness
It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.
Sigmund FreudTag: science prediction future humanity fulfillment mankind culture gods desire wish fairy-tale omniscience forbidden omnipotence
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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Tag: poetry wish kings pomp tomb
Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.
Robert FulghumPagina 1 di 11.
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