C. S. Lewis Quotes

You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need.

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

One always wants more when things work out.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

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.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

I want to have it all.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.