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"There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation."
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"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."
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"Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises."
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"Don't be a slave to expectations - yours or others'."
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"There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation."
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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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"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."
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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."
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"To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people."
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"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."
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"There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity."
Diversity
"Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject."
Freedom
"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
Fear
"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."
Death
"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
Being
"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
Virtue
"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."
Purpose
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
Being
"Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own."
Courage
"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
Identity
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