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• Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Confidence, Sweet, Arrogance

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• Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

  George Matthew Adams

  Tough, Problem, Hurdle

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• Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Waiting, Foundation

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• Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations.

  Nathaniel Branden

  People, Age, Needs

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• You're old when you're old. Why should you be limited by someone else's expectations?

  Lynne Cox

  Should

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• I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It's like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don't really feel that part until I'm into whatever I'm going to wear.

  Elton John

  People, Actors, Costumes

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• Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Goal, Enemy

  Dr. Phil McGraw (2003). “Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

  Marianne Williamson

  Age, World, Certain

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• Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Blessed

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

  James A. Baldwin

  Lying, World, Demand

  "The shot that echoes still" by James Baldwin, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2018.

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• Your life will follow your expectations. What you expect is what you will get. If you dwell on positive thoughts, you will move in that direction; if you continually think negative thoughts, you will live a negative life.

  Joel Osteen

  Moving, Thinking, Negative

  Joel Osteen (2008). “Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).

  Dennis Prager

  Thankfulness, Each Day, Way

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• If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will lead you into non-misery. If anger creates a hell within you, then compassion will create a heaven. So whatsoever the process of misery, the reverse will be the process of happiness. Unconditioning means you have to understand the whole knotted phenomenon of human consciousness as it is.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Compassion, Attachment

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• When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl Like the stars are to the sky It's funny how the world lives up to All your expectations With adventures for the stout of heart And the lure of the open spaces There's two lanes running down this road And whichever side you're on Accounts for where you want to go Or what you're running from Back when darkness overtook me On a blind man's curve I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Girl, Running, Stars

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• If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.

  Alistair Begg

  Selfish, Contentment, May

  Alistair Begg (2004). “Pathway to Freedom: How God's Law Guides Our Lives”, p.215, Moody Publishers

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• No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Soon Enough, Heaven, Upset

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• Abundance comes from within it comes from thought , intention, attention and expectation

  Deepak Chopra

  Attention, Abundance, Intention

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• So somebody comes along and gets to me. They get me angry or uptight or they awaken some desire in me, wow am I delighted. They got me. And that’s my work on myself. If I am angry with you because your behavior doesn’t fill my model of how you should be, that’s my problem for having models. No expectations, no upset. If you are a liar and a cheat, that’s your Karma. If I’m cheated, that’s my work on myself.

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  Ram Dass

  Karma, Liars, Upset

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• Loving ourselves opens us to truly knowing ourselves as part of the matrix of existence, inextricably connected to the boundlessness of life... when we see that we are far bigger than the person that is delineated by family or cultural expectations, we realize we are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Knowing, Realizing, Imagine

  Sharon Salzberg (2012). “The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion”, p.19, Sounds True

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• I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Genuine Concern, Rights

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• At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things far beyond our expectations? We are talking about tools and carpentry, about words and style... but as we move along, you'd do well to remember that we are also talking about magic.

  Stephen King

  Moving, Writing, Talking

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

  Jack Kornfield

  Regret, War, Ambition

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• One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

  Edward Hirsch

  Boredom, Inspire, Frustrated

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• Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Waiting, Foundation

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• I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.

  George Soros

  Study, Theory, Hypothesis

  George Soros' Remarks at the Festival of Economics, www.georgesoros.com. June 2, 2012.

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