#expect

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity. ↗

— Olivia Goldsmith

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Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#broken #doubt #expectancy #flowery #hesitation

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. ↗

— Patricia McCormick

#disappointment #expectations #hope #life #strategy

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

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People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#after #am #artist #between #case

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills. ↗

— Jean Harlow

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Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations. ↗

— Matthew Hayden

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I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

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When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#idealize #live #never #others #up