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"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
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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.)"

"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."

"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."
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"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing."
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