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• People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Looks, True Happiness

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• I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.

  Josh Turner

  Blessed, Wife, Support

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• You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Who I Am, Years, New Normal

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• I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Feelings, Littles, Disappointed

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• I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

  Christopher Walken

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Age, Way, Surroundings

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• I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

  Emma Watson

  Worry, Looks, Way

  "How Beauty and the Beast star Emma Watson will shed her Harry Potter past" by Hannah Hope, www.mirror.co.uk. March 3, 2017.

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• The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

  Andrew Weil

  Children, Emotional, Thinking

  "Q&A: 'Spontaneous Happiness' with Andrew Weil". Interview with Daniel Lefferts and Luke Dempsey, www.usatoday.com. March 21, 2013.

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• You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

  Florence Welch

  Should Have, Expectations Of Yourself, High Expectations

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• Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.

  Ellen G. White

  Children, Yield, Favors

  Ellen G. White (1994*). “Spiritual Gifts Vol 3 & 4”, Review and Herald Pub Assoc

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• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Future, Unexpected, Modern

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.93, A&C Black

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• Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Hands, Space, Trying

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• High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

  James Wolcott

  Birthday, Children, Self Esteem

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• I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

  Rachel Zoe

  Girl, Textbooks, Definitions

  "Rachel Zoe: Size 0 to 8" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2008.

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• Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

  Rob Zombie

  People, Like You, Backfire

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2005.

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• Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

  Felix Dennis

  Fever, Too Much, Enough

  "Felix Dennis's top 10 anti-poverty books" by Felix Dennis, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2006.

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• She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.

  John Irving

  Children, Attention, Phrases

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• People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Hope, Self Esteem

  'Essays' (1841) 'Circles'

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• Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?

  Viggo Mortensen

  Hands, Understanding, Affection

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• Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.

  Matt Groening

  Tiny

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• There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined , though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.

  Michael Cunningham

  Morning, Children, Odds

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.225, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.

  Wendell Berry

  Unique, Miracle, Alive

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

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• Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office lockdown—like a beach ball on water. The next time a problem arises in your life, take a deep breath, let out a sigh, and replace the thought Oh no! with the thought Okay.

  Martha Beck

  Letting Go, Beach, Brother

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• Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

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• Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Success, Believe

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