“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”
“What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.”
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
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Robert Jordan 305
American writer 1948–2007Related quotes
“Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.”
“Happiness is not having what you want but wanting what you have.”
“Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.”
Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.
As quoted by Seneca (Epistles, 94)
“Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.”
Source: The Judgment
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
Variant: well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
Lake Wobegon Days (1985), p. 337
Source: Lake Wobegon U.S.A.
“Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.”
Variant: Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.