#wishes

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely. ↗

— Iain Pears

#cloud-cuckoo-land #desires #dreams #futility #imagination

how long is forever when you can stop the time for a while to see...the sunrise? ↗

— Haidji

#ebook #goodread #haidji #lide-into-mist #life

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#deceiver #deceiving #depends #efficiency #entirely

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#children #compelled #instruction #justice #man

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. ↗

— Dan Rather

#learn #lesson #life #tough #well

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#live #living #others #selfishness #wishes

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#another #difficulties #forming #gratified #higher

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#desires #dream #drink #fairy #fairy tale

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#bear #democracy #desire #different #disengagement

I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#dreams #hopes #inspirational #wishes #dreams