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"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations."
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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.)"
"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
"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."
"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
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"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."
"I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it."
"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises."
"What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity."
"If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails."
"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself."
"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn."
"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."
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