„And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.“

„Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, buch At First Sight

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

—  Jill Shalvis American writer 1963

„You can live your life two ways: You can use your language to manipulate. You can use it as a tool to get what you want. But the problem with that is that it assumes you know what you want, and that you're right. And that's a problem, because there's lots of things you don't know, and if you get what you want you may find that (A.) You didn't really want it, and (B.) that you're not the person that started the journey towards that. That happens a lot to people, especially when they use their language in a manipulative way.“

—  Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962

„The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.“

—  Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855

„Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.“

—  Beverly Lewis American writer 1949

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

—  David Levithan, buch Letztendlich sind wir dem Universum egal

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

—  Randy Pausch, buch The Last Lecture

„When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.“

—  Haruki Murakami, buch Mister Aufziehvogel

„Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?“

—  Orson Scott Card, buch Ender's Shadow

„You don't know what you can get away with until you try.“

—  Colin Powell Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general 1937

„GIVE, even when you know you can get nothing back.“

—  Ralph Smart

„Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, buch At First Sight

„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.“

—  Dan Millman American self help writer 1946

„You have to know what you want to get it.“

—  Gertrude Stein American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays 1874 - 1946

„You can talk about the 'how' and the 'what', but "when you get to the "why" it gets a little more difficult.“

—  Richard Serra American sculptor 1939

„Really surrender yourself. Really let yourself flow so that all this can pour into you, all this can help you. Because you know what satsang really does? It just makes us stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger. So if you want to get strong, here is your vitamins. You know? And you just got to take them. And take them as prescribed. And take the right vitamins and you’ll get strong. And you are getting stronger. So just let yourself flow in this beautiful, beautiful river of satsang, and just experience what’s really happening.“

—  Prem Rawat controversial spiritual leader 1957

„Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy…“

—  Dave Sim Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus 1956

„If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?“

—  Rick Riordan, buch Percy Jackson – Diebe im Olymp

„I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.“

—  Larry Wall American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954