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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. Ayelet Waldman

We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this world. He told us that He wished to give us all that He had. To qualify for that gift we had to receive mortal bodies and be tested. Because of those mortal bodies, we would face pain, sickness, and death. Henry B. Eyring

Death World Gift Father Sickness Face Before Pain Those Would Born Spirit Give Had He Mortal Wished Qualify Because Tested Were Heavenly Taught Heavenly Father Children Loved Us Bodies Receive

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. Christopher Columbus

People Made Men Could Unskilled Wished Arms Subjected Very

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. Franz Kafka

Liberty Drop Earth Atlas He Wished Opinion Permitted Away Creep

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression. H. P. Lovecraft

Savage Great Will Long Down Every State Rule Plunging Object More Ardently Cast Previous Individual Argue Wished Because Denied Motive Just Repression After Anything Break Acquired Aside Then Inhibition Sufficiently Desired

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. Eminem

Dream More Almost Wished Always Than Turning Nightmare

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. W. H. Auden

Happiness Joy Possessed Tail Could Wished Wag Times Us

It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. Alexandre Dumas

Death Good Live Wished Know How Order Necessary

Whatever dreams I have wished have come true. Annette Funicello

Dreams Whatever True Wished Come

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work. B. B. King

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love. Franz Schubert

Love Me Wished Sing Sorrow Transformed To Love Turned

More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key. Harlan Coben

Life Key Real Life Once Delete More Had Wished Real Than

It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa. Jane Kaczmarek

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was. Ruth Reichl

Mom Great Me Gift Father Great Gift Generosity Wished She Greatest Encouraging Trained Person Wanted Acts Her

I've known the poet Eileen Myles since the 1990s, when I first moved to New York, and I remember seeing her walking her Pit Bull Rosie around the East Village. She had these beautiful arms and David Cassidy hair and the sort of swagger so many of the gay boys I knew wished we had. We all had crushes on her. Alexander Chee

Beautiful Gay Remember Poet Hair First East East Village Seeing David Had Knew Since New Wished Crushes She Arms Known Sort Around Boy Bull Walking York Pit Moved New York Swagger Rosie Many Village Her

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty. Alexander the Great

It was tragic every single time my mom told me we were moving. I would always envy my friends who had grown up in the same house their entire life, and they had markings on the wall of 'me at five years old' and all that. It made me so sad. I wished I'd had that. Camila Mendes

Sad Life Time Mom Me Envy Old Made Single Every Every Single Time Would Entire Entire Life Had Wished House Always Single Time Were Years Tragic Up Friends Five Wall Same Moving Who Grown Grown-Up

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