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"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
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"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."
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"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
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Personal Development
"Expectation creates the reality."
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"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
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"We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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"If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have."
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"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
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"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
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"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
Social
"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."
Emotion
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
Time
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
Fact
"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
Happiness
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
Food
"In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards."
Man
"The instinct is not completely satisfied unless a man's whole being, mental quite as much as physical, enters into the relation. Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give; unconsciously, if not consciously, they feel this and the resulting disappointment inclines them towards envy, oppression, and cruelty."
Affection
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
Fear
"The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses."
Justice
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