To wish bad things for someone else, is like looking for high blood pressure. Because strong people fall, but stand up again.

— Fasela Oosterwolde

Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?

— N.K. Jemisin

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret.'- from 'Dimpellumpzki.

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Stop waiting and start working. Stop wishing and start walking.

— Israelmore Ayivor

Do you ever think of me when you look up at the moon and the stars? When you look into the horizon as the sun sets? We're looking at the same sun, and the stars may burn brighter where you are, but I can't see them, and they're still there. I spend nights trying to see the stars that you see, but I end up seeing you in the stars instead.

— Karen Quan

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

— Janet Fitch

Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you...

— Thomm Quackenbush

Hope is the fuel within all human souls.Eliminate hope—nothing moves, nothing grows.

— Richelle E. Goodrich

My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.

— Steve Maraboli