Quotes about Wishful thinking

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...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age d — Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World and Other Writings
You have to choose your path.You have to decide what you wish to do.You are the only person that can determine your dest — Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the o — Joan Didion
The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere s — Criss Jami, Killosophy
If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams. — Anthony Liccione
The graceful wings of a dove lead to the endless imagination in a dream wings of pain. — Auliq Ice
We all know dogmatists who are more concerned about holding their opinions than about investigating their truth. ... if — David L. Wolfe, Epistemology: The Justification Of Belief
Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe. — Luther Burbank
Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand — Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Worldly religion is that which replaces Faith with mere wishful thinking. One must not make the common mistake of puttin — Criss Jami
You can get what you want in life.You must reach out with all your heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita
IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with compl — William Blake, The Complete Poetry and Prose
Imagination of a place, attracted the possibility of my travel to the place. — Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life
Imagine the possibilities of your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita
We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselv — Dathan Auerbach, Penpal
Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking — Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I didn't know that I've completely left them all in the past. There's a part of me, wishing and hoping, that she would c — Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight
In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't. — Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was col — David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames