“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.”

Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer

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

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

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

Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture

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

Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

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

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

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

Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden

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

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist

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

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

“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