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• I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

  Henry Miller

  Mind, Made

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Peace, Moving, Home

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• He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Would Be, Way, Expected

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• It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear, Atheism, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed.

  H. E. Bates

  Dream, Gratitude, Character

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• If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.

  Tonya Hurley

  Dream, Expectations, Energy

  Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Homecoming”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.

  Jules Olitski

  Celebrate

  "Jules Olitski: 'Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate'". Artsy Interview, www.artsy.net. April 8, 2014.

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• You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

  Aimee Bender

  Girl, Perfect, Said

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.157, Random House

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• For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful

  Fernando Pessoa

  Grateful

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• To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Sympathy, Profound, Desire

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• And you love Sophie." Gideon's mouth tensed. "She's a mundane and a servant," said Gabriel. "I don't know what you expect to come of it, Gideon." "Nothing," Gideon said roughly. "I expect nothing. But the fact that you believe I should shows that our family brought us up to believe that we should do right only if some reward was the result.

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Gideon, Gabriel

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

  James Hillman

  Despair, Demand

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• If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

  Tonya Hurley

  Disappointment, Expectations, Disappointed

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• If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

  Dogen

  Want, Way, Masters

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