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"There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation."
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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."
"To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people."
"Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises."
"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."
"In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness."
"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."
"The society and surroundings pressures us to do what they want us to do and be what they want us to be."
"There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation."
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"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."
"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."
"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
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