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«Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen.»
Author: Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby | About: Wishes | Keywords: go about, sabotage
«We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.»
Author: Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Prime Minister) | About: Wishes | Keywords: Canada, Masters, Our House
«Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.»
Author: William Henry Harrison (President) | About: Principles, Wishes | Keywords: carried, sir
«The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.»
Author: Abraham Maslow (Philosopher, Psychologist) | About: Affection, Humanity, Wishes | Keywords: affection, behavior, fundamental, secure, security
«The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.»
Author: Ann Landers (Advice columnist) | About: Wishes | Keywords: married, poor, rich, the poor, The single
«Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Wishes | Keywords: calm, forgotten, storms, Vows
«Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life»
Author: Epictetus | About: Wishes | Keywords: flow, tranquil
«The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Wishes | Keywords: managed
«Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Life, Wishes | Keywords: chief
«Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Wishes | Keywords: harried, harry
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