- one's heart's desire
念願する desire; wish ((for))
- それは私の20年来の念願である
- It has been 「my heart's desire [my dearest wish] for twenty years.
- 長い間の念願がかなった
- My long-cherished desire has been fulfilled.
- 念願のDVDをやっと手に入れた
- At last I got the DVD I had wanted for so long.
- 若いころは画家になることを念願していた
- When he was young, he longed to become an artist.