Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want…

... there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.

— Eckhart Tolle

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

— Eckhart Tolle

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

— David Levithan

The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

— Sonya Sones

The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

— Neil Gaiman

It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.

— Alexandra Potter

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

— David Myers

Sometimes, not getting what you want can be the most valuable experience of your entire life.

— Tony Robbins

The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.

— Zig Ziglar

The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.

— Arthur D. Hlavaty

The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

— Ben Stein

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

— Byron Katie

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

— Quentin Crisp

“It was so much easier when I don't want anything. Not getting want you want want can make you cruel.”

— David Levithan

“Not getting what we want can be getting what we need”

— S.E. SEVER