Getting What You Want famous quotes

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.
-- Alan Cohen

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

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It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.
-- Alexandra Potter

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Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.
-- Asher Roth

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

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It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
-- David Levithan

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

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... there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.
-- Eckhart Tolle

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Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.
-- Ethan Hawke

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Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.
-- Jane Wagner

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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.
-- Jonathan Haidt

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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.
-- Keanu Reeves

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

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And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.
-- Michael Neill

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If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
-- Peter McWilliams

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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.
-- Rudy Ruettiger

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

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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.
-- Thomas Merton

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

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

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You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

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The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.
-- Arthur D. Hlavaty

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