No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant...
Some expectation are inevitable but the problem happens when we are not able to measure the likelihood of reciprocation or fulfillment. We fail as measuring instruments, and so we drag & impose our ex...
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential for the eye which ever young and ardent sees the possible ... what wine is so s...
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
Not always what you expect is what you wanted
You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.
Issues arise not from expecting too much from people, but too little.
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing.
i prefer people see me sit in the corner, shut and look stupid, rather see me look smart and cool..i disgust a high expectations of people on me because I don't want to have to live in this world with...
Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.
What have you done to qualify yourself for the miracles you are expecting.
I do not adjust my standpoint to others expactations.
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