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• Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Mistake, Long

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• Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Drama, Fall, Mean

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• Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hands, People, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 20, 2015

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• When your dealing with a lot of men talking about selling drugs, you have to be the toughest one there, you have to be the one putting in all the work that you are expecting them to do. I was tired of leading from the front and living that life. That was not the aggressive lifestyle that I wanted to live. I wanted to progress as a man.

  Damon Dash

  Tired, Men, Talking

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• Not to settle. If you're not happy with a person, leave. And wait until you find that one person who makes you feel good about yourself every single day and is not expecting you to change, but to grow.

  Zoe Saldana

  Feel Good, Waiting, That One Person

  "Zoe Saldana Will Hand You Your Ass on a Silver Platter". Interview with Kimberly Cutter, www.marieclaire.com. July 14, 2014.

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• I've had guys, when I've been single, come date me and I've found out they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person-- and that's just not me. I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Strong, Crazy, People

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• [Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Passion, Exercise

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.331, eBookIt.com

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• I shall be glad to see thee back, daughter, for I miss thee dreadfully. I wish I did not! I was taking a nap in my chair today, and I thought I heard thee rustling thy papers, and I looked over at thy table expecting to see thee, and alas! thee was not there, and it was dreadful.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Daughter, Naps, Missing

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1950). “Philadelphia Quaker: the letters of Hannah Whitall Smith”

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• I should stop expecting so much.

  Ishida Mitsunari

  Should

  "Fictional character: Mitsunari Ishida". Video Game "Samurai Warriors", 2004.

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• Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's I refuse to burn my energy adding extra magic and sparkle to other people’s lives to get them to love me. I’m busy casting spells for myself.

  Laurie Penny

  Growing Up, Hero, Men

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• I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.

  Dana Reeve

  Long, Fairs, Long Time

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• Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Perfect, Perfection, Release

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• You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Want, Expecting Things

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• Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.

  Niecy Nash

  Beautiful, Children, Self Esteem

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• Have enough faith in the love of God to believe that a short heartfelt prayer is just as good as a long one. Too long a session of prayer usually means that in your heart you really doubt the love of God, and think that a great deal of effort and toil will be necessary to move Him. Pray quietly and sincerely for a reasonable time-and then leave the matter, expecting success.

  Emmet Fox

  Prayer, Believe, Moving

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• There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Art, Sex, Children

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• You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

  Richard Rohr

  Eye, Cynical, Negative

  "Third Sunday of Advent: Keeping Our Hearts Open in Hell". Fr. Richard Rohr's homily at the Center for Action and Contemplation, cac.org. December 16, 2012.

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• The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

  Patrick Carney

  Fun, Play, People

  "The Black Keys". Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Jobs, Years, Acting

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• I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

  Gary Numan

  Wall, Disappointment, Dark

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• Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Attitude, Outcomes, Problem

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Pain, Failure, Adversity

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• You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.

  Beth Moore

  Expecting Something, Different, Way

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• If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Powerful, Compassion

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.167, Harper Collins

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• When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised at how much pleasure you get in material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.

  Donald Miller

  People, Perfect, Trouble

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.206, Thomas Nelson Inc

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