Best wish & earth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.”

Firsts Earth Wish Sea Flower Thee Glorious Gems

“People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.”

People Thinking Humans Earth Humanity Fun Wish Buddhism Endless Absurd Vanity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I wish that I am a star, shining for every TripleS in every corner of the earth.”

Earth Wish Stars Shining Corners

Author:Kim Kyu-jong

“If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.”

People Ifs World Ends Problem Earth Wish Social Common Resources International Heritage Ongoing Social Problems

Author:Jacque Fresco

“The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.”

Feels Firsts Humans Two Ideas Soul Earth Form Desire Fighting Wish Adventure Return Human Form

Book:Self-realization Magazine

Source: Self-realization Magazine

“If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.”

Ifs May Eye Earth Wish Pleasure Garden Fruit Curiosity Possession Appearance Temptation Curse Realms Pluck Glisten

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.”

Earth Heaven Wish Wife Son Riches Obedient

Author:Chanakya

“The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.”

Want Earth Wish Gains

Book:A Heap o' Living'

Source: A Heap o' Living'

“Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.”

Needs May Light Earth Lying Night Wish Arms Ill Charm Buried Limbs Good Night Bewitched

Author:Edmund Waller

“It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.”

Mind Earth Faces Left Wish White Seeing Species Males Parks National Parks

Author:Alan Bennett

“The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for insight that these enemies being human also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the poorer.”

Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Littles Earth Wish Causes Accepting Atheism Son Hero Understood Regard Blind Ass My Son Monkeys Propositions Deaf Antithesis Baboons Foals

Book:Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues

Source: Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues

“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!”

World May Doe Ideas Matter Enough Earth Beautiful Life Is Wish My Own Existence Return No Matter What Mere Surface Justify Gestures Fabric Sentimental

Author:Frank O'Hara

“We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.”

Knows Way Giving Mean Self Seems Eye Earth Heaven Wish Wise Blood Worst Sorrow Highest Ears Islam Flesh Denial Vain Resignation Flesh And Blood God Is Great

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.”

Earth Beautiful Wish Music Beautiful Music

Book:The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920

Source: The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920

“You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.”

People Giving Feels Wells Care Earth Wish Cost Feel Better Apologizing Closure

Book:Old Man's War Boxed Set I

Source: Old Man's War Boxed Set I

“If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed.”

Ifs Earth Wish Compassion Immortality If I Could

Author:Maria Theresa

“If I'm in a relationship, I'll go to the ends of the earth. If I'm on the road and we have a conversation, and she says, "God, I really wish I was there with you right now," I'll hang up the phone, send a car, and have the plane ready.”

Ifs Ends Earth Wish Car Ready Right Now Conversation Phones Planes Hang Ups

Author:Josh Groban

“God wants a love partner, centering on the place where husband and wife become one through their sexual organs, God wants to appear and meet us...I wish you would center on the absolute sexual organ, unique sexual organ, unchanging sexual organ and eternal sexual organ and use this as your foundation to pursue God...We have to realize that the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven will begin on this foundation.”

“Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.”

Giving May Might Earth Poetry Wish Poet Satellites

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.”

Earth Faces Fall Wish Supermodel

Author:Amber Valletta

“You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.”

Ifs Ideas Wanted Earth Father Heaven Wish Share Creator Cease Almighty Heaven And Earth

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.”

Done Earth Heaven Wish My Own Gods Will Good God

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in due subordination to the fulness and freshness of their knowledge on moral subjects. ... Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.”

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