When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves.
- Trieu Thi Trinh
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Story is a sacred visualization,
a way of echoing experience.
- Terry Tempest Williams
I wish you a tea and jammies kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I wish you a magical white rabbit kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe totally in a Capitalist System,
I only wish that someone would try it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I wish you a rainbows and butterflies kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi 
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish
there was less immaturity in political thinking.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I did not wish to take a cabin passage,
but rather to go before the mast
and on the deck of the world,
for there I could best see
the moonlight amid the mountains.
I do not wish to go below now.
- Henry David Thoreau
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,
and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe
for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel.
Along with all men of good will,
I salute the young state and wish it well.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
Know that the true essence of the Golden Rule
is always being compassionate, kind,
generous, and being in service to others.
Compelling others to behave as you wish
them to behave in the name of the
Golden Rule is a corruption of a sacred principle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential -
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you wish to be a writer, write.
- Epictetus
The Moon Cannot Be Stolen:
A thief entered the little hut of a Zen Master,
but discovered there was nothing to steal.
The Zen Master discovered the thief.
"You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler,
"and you should not return empty-handed.
Please take my clothes as a gift."
The thief was bewildered,
but he took the clothes and slunk away.
The Zen Master sat naked, watching the moon.
"Poor fellow," he mused,
"I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."
- Traditional Zen Koan
There is not a truth existing which I fear...
or would wish unknown to the whole world.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
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