Esther Hicks Quotes

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

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

It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."

The hour I have long wished for is now come.

We would be happier with what we have if we weren't so unhappy about what we don't' have

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

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.

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

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

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

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

Once one feels content about what one has, then humiliation does not arise. If one could never feel content, one would never even get what one wished to have.

I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people.

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

One always wants more when things work out.

I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

Success is easy to take for granted.

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