Wishes and Wishing

If you could have one wish granted, what would it be?
 
“Make a wish . . . then make it happen!” -Author Unknown
 
“They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low, and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself.” -J. Michael Straczynski
 
“Work while others are wishing.” -William A. Ward (William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994))

Some see a weed, some see a wish . . . have you ever made a wish on a dandelion flower that has gone to seed, and then blew the tiny seed-carrying tufts off to be carried away by the breeze?
 
Wishing Objects
- Birthday cake candles
- Coins tossed into fountains
- Coins tossed into wishing wells
​- Dandelion seed tufts
- Stars
- Stones
- Wishbones
Can you think of other wishing objects?
 
“We can do whatever we wish to do, provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed - one doesn’t always want to make it - does one? . . . But what else can be done? What’s the alternative? What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.” -Katherine Mansfield (Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (1888 - 1923))
 
“What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
 
Wishes
 
If wishes were horses,
     beggars would ride.
If turnips were watches,
     I’d wear one by my side.
If ‘ifs’ and ‘ands’
     Were pots and pans,
There’d be no work
     for tinkers’ hands!
 
by Author Unknown
 
“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.” -Søren Kierkegaard (Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855))
 
“Few wishes come true by themselves.” -June Smith
 
“Will you look back on life and say, ‘I wish I had,’ or ‘I’m glad I did’?” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
 
“Great minds have purpose. Others have wishes.” -Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)

Wish Upon a Star
 
Starlight, star bright,
     The first star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
     Have the wish I wish tonight.
 
by Author Unknown
 
“It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering.” -Patricia Clafford (Mary ‘Patricia’ (Wise) Clafford (1900 - 1998))
 
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” -Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor ‘Eleanor’ Roosevelt (1884 - 1962))
 
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger after them.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “The Mill on the Floss” (1860)
 
“Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and to be that perfectly.” -Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
 
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying, ‘I wish,’ and start saying, ‘I will.’” -Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870)): “David Copperfield” (1849 - 1850)
 
“A wish is a desire without an attempt.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Reader’s Digest”

It’s your birthday . . . make a secret wish and blow out the candles! What did you wish for - wait, it’s a ‘secret’ wish, so you can’t tell anyone or it might not come true!
 
“Any Fish You Wish.” -Author Unknown: sign at Larry’s Fish House in the movie “The Flamingo Kid” (21 December 1984)
 
This one makes a net,
     this one stands and wishes.
Would you like to make a bet -
     which one gets the fishes?
-Author Unknown
 
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don’t let yourself indulge in vain wishes.” -Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
 
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Away with Wishing!
 
If wishing were being, we’d all be beautiful,
     Healthy and wealthy, wise and dutiful;
If wishing were having - what pleasure untold;
     With a heartful of joy and purseful of gold!
 
But wishes, alas! are but empty bubbles,
     And the longing heart may teem with troubles,
So idle wishing is vain, forsooth
     As the endless search for the fountain of youth.
 
But work that holds wealth may be had for the taking,
     Though it may not bring health, ’tis a balm for heart-aching;
And study makes wise, and love, people say,
     Gives the beauty that’s truest, which lasts for aye.
 
Then away with wishing; and ho! for labor!
     And ho! for love - each one for his neighbor!
For a life of labor and study and love
     Is the life that fits for the joy above.
 
by Emma C. Dowd (1851 - 1938)
 
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“Stop wishing, start doing.” -Author Unknown
 
“An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.” -Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
 
“You don’t get what you want in life just by wishing.” -Author Unknown
 
“If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite.” -Author Unknown
 
“Don’t wish for it . . . work for it!” -Author Unknown

“We wish upon stars, coins tossed into fountains and wishing wells, birthday candles, wishbones, and dandelion tufts . . . perhaps it is time we placed our wishes upon hard work and made our dreams come true.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Work will win when wishy washy wishing won’t.” -Thomas S. Monson (Thomas Spencer Monson (1927 - 2018))
 
“We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
 
“Wishes are the echo of a lazy will.” -Author Unknown
 
“May you get all your wishes but one, so you always have something to strive for.” -Author Unknown: Irish blessing
 
“Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.” -Alexander Woollcott (Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (1887 - 1943))
 
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.” -Richard Bach (Richard David Bach (born 1936)): “Illusions” (1977)
 
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