#wishing

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#harm #kindness #mercy #smile #smiling

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#away #gave #given #had #i

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one. ↗

— S. E. Hinton

#boy #condemned #feel #first #i

Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road. We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art. ↗

— Lana Del Rey

#born-to-die #elizabeth-woolridge-grant #life #lyrics #music

Be not wishing and pining, but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret." - from "Dimpellumpzki ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#contentment #gratefulness #longing #pine #pining

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ↗

— Aristotle

#best #best friend #friend #man #me

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ↗

— Aristotle

#best friend #friend #man #me #sake

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#hopes #hoping #inspirational #options #positive

We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fruition #motivational #society #success #wishing

Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#black #club #dance #i #last