Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Fall Quotes, Expectations Quotes

You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

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

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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

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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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The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

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

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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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If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

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

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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

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The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

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