Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

If you have one wish, wish for everything
to be exactly as it is.
Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

It is not as if I want to be a princess. Since I was four years old I've spent every birthday, shooting star, wishbone, and lost eyelash wishing I did not have to be a princess!

I wish i could feed my soul just like i feed my hunger.

to hope was to expect

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.