The passage discusses different approaches to achieving one's wants and how they relate to luck, time, life, and success. It states that luck is when you want something and get it, time is when you want something and wait for it, life is when you want something but compromise, and success is when you want something, are willing to wait for it without compromising.

1. "You want and you get, that is luck.
You want and you wait, that is time.
You want but you compromise, that is life.
You want, you wait and you do not compromise,
that is success."