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.
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.
The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.
How is it wrong to put everything you have into getting what you want most in the world?
Great negotiators never lose sight of what they are aiming at, which is not an agreement per se, but a desired outcome. . . . Getting to yes is easy, all you have to do is roll over. It's getting what you want that's hard.
Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
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.
Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.
Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.
It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.
The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.
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.
The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get.
And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable. . . you ironically increase. . . the probability of getting what you want.
It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.
Sometimes, not getting what you want can be the most valuable experience of your entire life.
The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
. . . there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.
