Battle for our lives Quote by Terence

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

— Menander

We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.

— Louis XIV

We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We can't tell our life from our wish

— Randall Jarrell

We must live not as we like, but as we can.

— Vikrant Parsai

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

we wish for more in life rather than more of it.

— Jean Ingelow

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

— Benjamin Franklin

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

— Catherine of Genoa

We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement,…

— David Platt

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we…

— Anonymous

We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.

— Pete Wilson