#expectation

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. ↗

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Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#happiness #inspirational #quotient #reality #inspirational

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

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What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

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I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#shadow #waiting #life

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations. ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

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Was my life going to go on like this forever, totally uneventful? Alternating between unfulfilled expectations and expected disappointments? ↗

— Eva Heller

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On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip - such is Life! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect. ↗