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The secret to happiness is having 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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God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

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I'm the master of low expectations.

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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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I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

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Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.

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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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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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

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

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

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Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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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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The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

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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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