May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their race.
I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
I don't wish to be anything more or less than what I am. If this is how it is, then so be it.
I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
I wish I could play like Roger Federer.
The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.
I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.
If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.
You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.
Things economic and social move by their own momentum and the ensuing situations compel individuals and groups to behave in certain ways whatever they may wish to do-not indeed by destroying their freedom of choice but by shaping the choosing mentalities and by narrowing the list of possibilities from which to choose.
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.