Alain de Botton Quotes, Pride Quotes, Expectations Quotes

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.

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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.

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

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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

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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 recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

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I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

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Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. And the lessons derived from them conveniently serve to strengthen a status quo that increasingly marginalizes risk, originality and intelligence.

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To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

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I'm the master of low expectations.

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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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Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

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

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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

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