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• Put your expectations on God, not on people.

  Joyce Meyer

  People

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• Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

  Stephen King

  Art, Realization, Veils

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

  Jane Roberts

  Reality, Imagination, Range

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• Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Disappointment, Reality, Obvious

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

  Patricia Briggs

  Grace, Important, Live By

  Patricia Briggs (1998). “When Demons Walk”, p.236, Penguin

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• And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

  Amy Tan

  Fate, Thinking, Rose

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.131, Penguin

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• So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hermione, Exam, Should

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• If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

  Jodi Picoult

  What If, World, Faces

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Balance, Pajamas, Longing

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.287, Faber & Faber

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• We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hope, Wisdom, Fear

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• I think oldest children have a different mentality or know that there were different expectations of them, and I was not only the oldest child - I was the oldest grandchild of 18 grandchildren. I definitely grew up feeling like there were a lot of people who expected me to do something. But it was a very conservative family, very conservative neighborhood. I'm talking mid- to late '60s when I was growing up there, and so if I had stayed in the Boston area, I think my life would have been radically different.

  Susan Lyne

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

  George Will

  Disappointment, History, Use

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
  Still, still on hope relies;
  And every pang that rends the heart
  Bids expectation rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hope, Heart, Stills

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.120

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• Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.

  Pope John Paul II

  Freedom, Justice, Being Free

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• I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

  William Allen White

  Positive, Encouraging, Time

  "Vice President Joe Biden's Commencement speech at WFU". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2009.

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• The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Positive, Patience

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• True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

  Arlene Croce

  Acceptance, Genius, True Genius

  Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

  Walter Scott

  Motivational, Hope, Dawn

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.210

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• I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.

  Booker T. Washington

  Life, Success, Hope

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• In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.

  Walter Wink

  Country, Peace, Real

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• No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Believe, Successful

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• Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.

  Tony Robbins

  Thank You, Appreciation, Grateful

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• Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

  Susan Jacoby

  Truth, Intellectual, Mixtures

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• When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

  Frances O'Grady

  Daughter, Mother, Worry

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