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"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."
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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
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"Weren't you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)"
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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Personal Development
"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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"Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be."
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"Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional."
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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."
Life
"Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly."
Grief
"A great mind becomes a great fortune."
Fortune
"On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
Contentment
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
Religion
"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."
Anger
"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
Man
"All art is but imitation of nature."
Nature
"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."
Man
"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
Life
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