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"In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness."
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"The society and surroundings pressures us to do what they want us to do and be what they want us to be."
"To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people."
"There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation."
"Paco Fuentes,' Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary.The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat.Mrs. Peterson regards her new student over the glasses perched on her nose. 'Mr. Fuentes, don't think this class will be a piece of cake because your parents got lucky and developed a medication to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. Your father never did finish my class and he flunked one of my tests, although I have a feeling your mother was the one who should have failed. But that just means I'll expect extra from you."
"It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened. In generations past there was far less talk about 'compatibility' and finding the ideal soul mate. Today we are looking for someone who accepts us as we are and fulfills our desires, and this creates an unrealistic set of expectations that frustrates both the searchers and the searched for."
"Mrs Lynde says, "Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed."
"In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness."
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"Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time."
"It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It's is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will."
"There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived."
"During my life journey I've discovered an interesting thing once you stop seeking outside you discover what already resides within."
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