“You can’t create what you want if you are in resistance to what is.”

“You can’t just decide to be happy.”

“No, you can’t. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is that what you want?”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

“Don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t do what you’re doing because the only person that’s gonna stop you from doing what you want is you.”

Darren Criss (1987) American actor and singer

“My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

“What you resist, persists”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“What you resist, persists”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

“If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.”

Alexei Maxim Russell (1976) Canadian writer

“Resistance comes in the form of any thought, belief, word, desire or action that pulls AGAINST the thing you want. Select what you want and then watch every thought you think and with each one, decide whether that thought pulls towards or against the thing you want. If it pulls in the direction of what you want, it will feel like relief internally. If it pulls against what you want, it will feel like tension or pressure internally.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

“Do you want to be what you are or do you want to be what continually changes what you are?”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology