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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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"There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation."
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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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"In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness."
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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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"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"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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"Don't be a slave to expectations - yours or others'."
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"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."
Emotion
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
Music
"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."
Problems
"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."
Parenting
"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
Politics
"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."
Sense
"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."
Culture
"Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction."
Marriage
"A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water."
Humor
"You can only be twice someone's age once."
Age
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