Alain de Botton Quotes, Company We Keep Quotes, Expectations Quotes

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.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

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I'm the master of low expectations.

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

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It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

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We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

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If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

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An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

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The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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