105 Quotes About Wishful-thinking

Jean Jacques Rousseau was at least right about this: better to face up to one's chains than to deck them with flowers and pretend they are not chains." ― Os Guinness, A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future

Oh, how I wish I was a woman—his woman.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.

Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.

Moms are so oblivious. It’s like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

If you wish, and you can, why not try? Live well, conquer all, lead most.

You say your prayers are not getting answered. If you are always running from the present and desperate to reach somewhere in future, you're doing wishful thinking, not prayer.