“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.”

“Mental sickness has set up a system by which it never loses. No matter what you do and no matter what the results are, you will win an ego-victory. That means that when you send your desires out into the world: 1. You will get what you want, or 2. You won't get what you want. Of you get what you want, the pseudo-nature says, "I have at last been given what I so richly deserve," and the sickness feels affirmed. If you don't get what you want, you feel sorry for yourself. You still feel affirmed because you get a feeling, and that's all that neurosis wants is a feeling.”

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”

“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.”

“You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”

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

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”

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

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t know what you wanted.”

“On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”