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"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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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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"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
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"Live without expectations. Don't set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy all of life's treasures."
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"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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"Expectation creates the reality."
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"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."
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"We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time."
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"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
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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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"When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical."
Thought
"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well."
Desire
"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
Perception
"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
Desire
"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."
Business
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
Life
"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."
Thought
"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."
Act
"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
Life
"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
Perception
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