"A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy."
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"What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition."
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"The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others."
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"We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater."
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"All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors."
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"It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live."
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"I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation."
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"I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy."
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"Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart."
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"The way to establish a relationship with Spirit and access the power of this creating principle is to continuously contemplate yourself as being surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce."
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"Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers."
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"All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion."
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"He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand."
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"We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish."
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"But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'"
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"I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'"
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"Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self."
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"Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices."
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"The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure."
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"I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all."
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