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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."

"Expectations create and shape reality."

"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.)"

"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."

"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."

"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."

"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."

"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."

"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."

"Expectation creates the reality."
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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure."
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