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• Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Disappointment, Blessed, Expect Nothing

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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• You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Live By

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• I wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn't hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently do it to me? Even my parents treat me like I'm stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Hurt, Stupid, People

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• There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

  Emma Thompson

  Differences, Finals, Events

  Emma Thompson (2007). “Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries”, Newmarket Press

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• Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.

  Surya Das

  Patience, Attachment, People

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• Kill me, Doug. Just kill me now. Put me out of my misery.” “Christ, Kincaid, what did you say to him?” murmured Doug. “Well,” I told Doug, “I ripped on his fans and on how long it takes for his books to come out.” Doug stared at me, his expectations exceeded. “Then I said—not knowing who he was—that I’d be Seth Mortensen’s love slave in exchange for advanced copies of his books.

  Richelle Mead

  Book, Knowing, Long

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• I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me. (Finding My Way Home)

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Meaningful, Eye

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Hurt, Way, Needs

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.93, Bantam

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• Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Writing, Our World, Long

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• There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Loneliness, Solitude, Mountain

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “The Haunted Baronet”, p.52, 谷月社

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• Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

  Norton Juster

  Phantom Tollbooth

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.25, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, this conversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and grasps and teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation.

  David Levithan

  Kissing, Light, Color

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• When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

  Jodi Picoult

  Simple, Comfort, Three

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Words Of Wisdom, Needs, Favors

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.113, Macmillan

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• Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

  Simone Elkeles

  Happiness, People, Miserable

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• It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

  Alain de Botton

  Company We Keep, Curiosity, Traveling Alone

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• We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Thinking, Littles, Unexpected

  "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Great Expectations", 2007), (2005 - ).

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• I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must be constantly monitored and are always the first suspects when anything goes wrong, everyone expects girls to do what they're told. It may seem a little insulting at first, but low expectations can be a blessing in disuise. If you're smart, you can use people's foolishness to your own advantage. It's amazing what you can get away with when no one bothers watching.

  Kirsten Miller

  Girl, Smart, Blessing

  Kirsten Miller (2007). “Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City”, Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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• Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, People, Giving

  Georg Brand, Virginia Woolf, Koizumi Yakumo, Hernández Felisberto (2017). “ON READING: Le plaisir de lire”, p.34, Pieffe Edizioni via PublishDrive

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• You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

  Jeff Kinney

  Dedication

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• Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

  Alan Watts

  Circles, Survival, Doe

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• People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

  Atul Gawande

  People, Accomplishment, Effort

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• I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

  David Levithan

  Fiction, Stories, Dangerous

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• I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?

  Rachel Cohn

  People, Guy, Encounters

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Honesty

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.227, Penguin

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