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• Amazing.” Hi stripped off his shirt, wrung it out. “Score one for your honker.” “Thanks, I think.” I cocked my chin at Hi’s substantial midsection. “Nice abs.” “Yeah, I work out twice a month. No expectations. But stop hitting on me, it’s embarrassing.

  Kathy Reichs

  Nice, Thinking, Work Out

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• The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

  Dean Koontz

  Laughter, Giving, Laughing

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• Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

  Wes Moore

  Mean, Thinking, Two

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• We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)

  Erich Segal

  Suicide, Doctors, Eight

  Erich Segal (2013). “Doctors”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Loud, Shirk

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• The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided that the mother is really looking at the unique, small, helpless being and not projecting her own expectations, fears, and plans for the child. In that case, the child would find not himself in his mother's face, but rather the mother's own projections. This child would remain without a mirror, and for the rest of his life would be seeking this mirror in vain.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• ...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

  Emma Donoghue

  Pain, Cynical, Sometimes

  Emma Donoghue (2013). “Hood”, p.145, Pan Macmillan

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• Oh, come off it,” said Ron, striding over to her and whipping her results out of her hand. “Yep— ten ‘Outstandings’ and one ‘Exceeds Expectations’ at Defense Against the Dark Arts.” He looked down at her, half-amused, half-exasperated. “You’re actually disappointed, aren’t you?

  J. K. Rowling

  Art, Dark, Hands

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• How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

  Rachel Cohn

  Connections, Anticipation, Moments

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

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• It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

  Dennis Lehane

  Optimistic, Doors, When You Love Someone

  Dennis Lehane (2011). “A Drink Before The War”, p.185, Random House

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• If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.

  Anais Nin

  Laughter, Fall, Wine

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• Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

  Dennis Prager

  Gratitude, Keys, Key To Happiness

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• Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Who I Am, Self

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• I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.

  David Levithan

  Lonely, Past, Views

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK

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• ...no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Falling In Love, Pieces, Want

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—she’d accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risqué joke, or go riding in cars with boys—and suddenly she was “that awful O’Neill girl” all over again.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Boys, Ohio

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• If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

  Idries Shah

  Giving Up, Able, Perceive

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.141, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.

  Brené Brown

  Believe, Healing, Ideas

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.162, Penguin

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• If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.

  Geoff Dyer

  Moving, Two, Bored

  "Danger! High-radiation arthouse!" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2009.

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• I don’t know. What do people see when they gaze at the sky? Inspiration? Beauty?” She heard him sigh. “Truth be told, this view always intimidated me. The sky’s so vast. I can’t help but feel it has expectations of me. Ones I’m already failing.” He was silent for a long moment. “It reminds me of your eyes.

  Tessa Dare

  Inspiration, Eye, Views

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• The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Reality, Mind, Ability

  Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Warrior Heir”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

  Abraham Maslow

  Real, Men, Self

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• People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.

  A.C. Grayling

  Believe, Long, People

  A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease.

  Surya Das

  Letting Go, Regret, Home

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• Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Mistake, Men

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