“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
“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”
Lake Wobegon Days (1985), p. 337
Source: Lake Wobegon U.S.A.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may…" by Garrison Keillor?
Garrison Keillor61
American radio host and writer 1942Related quotes
“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
“Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.”
Beverly Lewis (1949) American writer
Source: The Judgment
“You have to know what you want to get it.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Born of Shadows
