“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.”
Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture (2007)
“It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.”
— David Levithan, book Every Day
Source: Every Day
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