“know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Morrigan's Cross
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“I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
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“Experience is what you get when you didn’t know what you wanted.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: The Sweetest Thing
“Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.”
Beverly Lewis (1949) American writer
Source: The Judgment
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Variant: well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.”
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Variant: You can get what you want or you can just get old.
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
Lake Wobegon Days (1985), p. 337
Source: Lake Wobegon U.S.A.
“If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.”
Giannina Braschi book Yo-Yo Boing!
Yo-Yo Boing! (Spanglish novel, 1998)
