Wishful Quotes

“The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And because I cannot, God picked up the brush of love, positioned the canvas of history and painted a manger.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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, The Season of Second Chances

“I walk along an ever fading line between jaded and wishful thinking.”
― Sara Secora

“God as God is feeling … yet shut up, hidden; … Christ is the unclosed, open feeling of the heart. … Christ is the joyful certainty of feeling that its wishes hidden in God have truth and reality, the actual victory over death, over all the powers of the world and Nature, the resurrection no longer merely hoped for, but already accomplished; … the Godhead made visible.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity

“Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the outer perimeter regarding what we can experience and learn. Our inaugurating dreams are unlimited by physical reality and our genetic composition. There will always be an unbridgeable rift between countless combinations of human dreams and the infinity of reality, unless we accept what we are without wishing to be something else.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have ‘nothing’ so that I can finally learn how to appreciate ‘everything’.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.”
― Stephen Graham Jones

“Never wish to be somebody. You never know what they are made up of.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Miracle is agreeable because … it satisfies the wishes of man without labour[.]”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity

“[M]iracle presents … the sorcery of the imagination, which satisfies … all the wishes of the heart.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity

“Man … has the wish not to die. This wish is originally identical with the instinct of self-preservation. … Subsequently, … this primary negative wish becomes the positive wish for a life, and a better life, after death. … [T]his wish involves the further wish for the certainty of its fulfilment. Reason can afford no such certainty. … Such a certainty requires an immediate personal assurance, a practical demonstration. This can only be given to me by … a dead person … rising again from the grave; and he must be no indifferent person, but … representative of all others, so that his resurrection also maybe the … guarantee of theirs. The resurrection of Christ is … the satisfied desire of man for an immediate certainty of his personal existence after death[.]”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity

“[H]eavenly personality, or the perpetuation of human personality in heaven is nothing else than personality released from all earthly encumbrances and limitations[.] [H]ere we are men, there gods[.]”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity

“A woman is like a tea bag - you can tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves