Wishing For Something Quotes:

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

- Aristotle

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Men, Special Friend, Fake Friends

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

- Neil Gaiman

source: "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

topic: New Year, Mistake, Years, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Trying Something New

Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true. Believe that for every problem God gives you, He will also provide you with a solution.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Believe, Giving, Wish, Wishing For Something

Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.

- Sarah Dessen

source: Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.98, Penguin

topic: Opposites, Waiting, Wish, Wishing For Something

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

- Susan Rothenberg

topic: Prayer, Everyday, Wish, Pain In Life, Wishing For Something

Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend.

- Andrew X. Pham

source: Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.98, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

topic: Memories, Men, Long, Wishing For Something, Vivid Memories

It feels strange to have spent much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

- Jenny Han

source: Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

topic: Wish, One Day, Strange, Wishing For Something