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The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Desire to me is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

I believe that the voices of fear, both from without and within, can only be dispelled by trusting the voice that comes from the heart. Be still and listen to it. If it speaks of love and compassion for others, for the world itself, it just might be the voice of God – or a reasonable facsimile. If, however, it snarls with fear of the unknown, fear of losing what you have or of not getting what you want, then it just might be the voice of Rupert Murdoch – or a reasonable facsimile.

What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.

The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.

Happiness isn’t about getting what you want all the time; it’s about loving what you have.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Getting what you want doesn’t make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don’t know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can’t have what they want.

It’s not getting what you want that’s the hard part, it’s deciding what you want.

With non-professionals, there’s a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it’s less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. Follow the three R’s: – Respect for self. – Respect for others. – Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

…there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

Happiness doesn’t come from getting what you want. It doesn’t come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*–from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It’s bound to disappoint you.

Nothing makes you realize you don’t know what you want more than getting what you want.

Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.

Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don’t let what you have determine ‘who you are’, otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.

Great negotiators never lose sight of what they are aiming at, which is not an agreement per se, but a desired outcome….Getting to yes is easy, all you have to do is roll over. It’s getting what you want that’s hard.

When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.

The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

Sometimes, not getting what you want can be the most valuable experience of your entire life.

There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

The secret of happiness is simply this… your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.