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• Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

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• When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

  John Irving

  Death, Grief, Loss

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances complete it. That is why every being spontaneously honors the Tao. The Tao gives birth to all beings, nourishes them, maintains them, cares for them, comforts them, protects them, takes them back to itself, creating without possessing, acting without expecting, guiding without interfering. That is why love of the Tao is in the very nature of things.

  Laozi

  Love, Spring, Expression

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• I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Motivational, Courage

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 05, 2009

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• I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.

  Warren Buffett

  Hands, Dollars, Sitting

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously. There's considerable talk about the end of the age, and many people seem to believe that Christ will return in their lifetime. But why is it that expecting Christ's return hasn't radically influenced our giving? Why is it that people who believe in the soon return of Christ are so quick to build their own financial empires--which prophecy tells us will perish--and so slow to build God's kingdom?

  Randy Alcorn

  Believe, People, Giving

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• One time we stayed at a B&B, and there were a couple of hippies who had this nice little area and they let us sleep in their beds that they had in the back.Then the woman suggested we go out and lie on some cushions and look up at the stars and look for UFOs and she said, "You know, I do this all the time," and I was like, "Okay..." So there we are, lying there next to this amazing loch, and we're looking up in the stars and I don't really know what I was expecting, but to see some sort of metallic object.

  Rhys Darby

  Stars, Couple, Nice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all

  Nelson Mandela

  Responsibility, Hands, Giving

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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  There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

  Nelson Mandela

  Helping Others, Giving, Energy

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Inspirational, Artist, Thinking

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• Some people really expected he could do that, would do that. They're not expecting [Donald Trump] to target Hillary [Clinton], just to clean out the swamp.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Target, Swamps

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

  Carlo Ancelotti

  League, Ends, Accounts

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• I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  Marco Polo

  Voice, Stories, Ears

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• Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.

  Rakim

  Style, Albums, Surprise

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Kids, Technology, Years

  "POLITICO Interview: Sen. Amy Klobuchar". "America's Youth" with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

  George H. W. Bush

  Real, School, Matter

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• Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of October, I accidentally dug up one while turning over some garden earth. I was surprised, naturally, when one of the clods heaved over on its die and there, in some annoyance, sat at toad.

  Henry Mitchell

  Animal, Garden, Thinking

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• I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Thanks, I Am Thankful

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• You have to get lucky. Whether that's a good captain's pick, or two rookies combining for five points, if you get that, those are points you really aren't expecting.

  Nick Faldo

  Two, Lucky, Rookies

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

  Ian Bogost

  Able, Start The Day, Revelations

  Source: app.longform.org

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• The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Plato, Believe, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• The dreams you choose to believe in come to be. When you feel in your innermost being that you will achieve what you set out to do, you open the way for miracles. Choose to believe something good can happen. Expecting it to happen energizes your goal and actually gives it momentum. What you expect to happen, happens. If you expect to succeed, you'll succeed

  Nikita Koloff

  Dream, Believe, Giving

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• I like somebody I can consider edgy, because, I also find that when people see me; the first thing they might think about me, musically, is that I rap or make beats, in the sense of trap or hip-hop or whatever, and when they hear what I actually create, they'll often be like, 'Wait a minute, I wasn't expecting this'.

  Jlin

  Rap, Thinking, Often Is

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't know anything about you, so when you randomly come up and grab my ass, this isn't a friend doing it. It's like, "Who the f### is doing...? I was not expecting that."

  Brad Williams

  Ass, Come Up, Knows

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.

  Carolyn Hax

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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