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You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness
isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.
Yasmin Mogahed
You can roam the entire globe, but joy will not be yours until you understand that fulfillment is being content with what is already possessed.
2.
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
Thomas Merton
3.
Sometimes, not getting what you want can be the most valuable experience of your entire life.
Tony Robbins
4.
The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get.
Alex Trebek
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Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.
Asher Roth
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The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.
Neil Gaiman
7.
Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.
Jonathan Haidt
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The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.
Zig Ziglar
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Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.
Tom Krause
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
Quentin Crisp
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And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.
Michael Neill
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Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
Alan Cohen
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If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
Peter McWilliams
14.
Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
Pema Chodron
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Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.
Ethan Hawke
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There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
Tim Ferriss
17.
Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.
Jane Wagner
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The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.
Arthur D. Hlavaty
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...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.
Eckhart Tolle
20.
How is it wrong to put everything you have into getting what you want most in the world?
Rachel Vincent
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Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.
Robert Anthony
22.
The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
Ben Stein
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I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
Jodi Picoult
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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Douglas Coupland
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The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.
Sonya Sones
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Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.
David Levithan
27.
In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.
Tom Hodgkinson
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It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.
Alexandra Potter
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It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
David Levithan
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Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.
Unknown
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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
Ann Brashares
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It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.
Tony Robbins
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Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.
Keanu Reeves
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Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand Russell