Quote by Jean Toomer
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself ac

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. – Jean Toomer

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DATOS LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. – Robert Dato

If wishes were fishes wed all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses wed all ride. – Doug Horton

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. – Cardinal J. Newman

Oh, the secret life of man and woman –dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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