Ieva Urenceva

17 Poignant Quotes You Need When You Don't Get What You Want

Because life doesn't always work out in our favor. 
Heidi Priebe
July 26, 2016
“I’m going to find a way to be happy, and I’d really love to be happy with you, but if I can’t be happy with you, then I’ll find a way to be happy without you.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: Happiness, Love, Self-Sufficiancy, Being Alone, Alone, Relationships, Self-Worth, Empowering
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
— Dalai Lama, No Title
Tagged: Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.”
— Wolfgang Riebe, No Title
Tagged: Dreams, Change, Challenges, Failure, Starting Over
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Life, Challenge, Overcoming Adversity, Change, Failure, Bouncing Back, Resilience, strength
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. ”
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Pain, Loss, Longing, Love, Grief, Grieving, Death, Breakups, Moving On
“Some of the most told stories are the ones that don’t end well, the ones that are beautiful because someone laid it all on the line, was brave and vulnerable and submitted to the human condition. If that’s your story, its time to stop running from it and start taking pride in the fact that you were strong enough to let love through.”
— Brianna Wiest, Sadness Is Just Part Of The Story
Tagged: Love, Pain, Sadness, Acceptance, Broken Heart, strength
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Life, Love, Taking Risks, Emotion, Betrayal
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Healing, strength
“If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Personality, Individuality
“The way to not give a shit about something is to give way more of a shit about something else.”
— Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness
Tagged: Passion, Lust, Moving On, Desire, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, Chance, Working With What You've Got
“If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If I got three more words, I'd add, all the time.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: Truth, Genuineness, Honesty
“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: Experience, Desire, Failure
“There's one thing I want to say so I'll be brave
You were what I wanted
I gave what I gave
I'm not sorry I met you
I'm not sorry it's over
I'm not sorry, there's nothing to say. ”
— Stars, Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Tagged: Girl Who Cares Too Much, Love, Relationships, Moving On
“You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you'll find you get what you need.”
— The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (lyrics)
Tagged: Desire, Disappointment, Moving On
“When things go wrong, don't go wrong with them.”
— Elvis, Elvis Presley's Top 3 Pearls Of Wisdom
Tagged: Failure, Starting Over, strength, Resilience