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William Shakespeare

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

Alan Watts

The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.

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Albert Camus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces – desire, belief, and expectation.

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Lao Tzu

Act without expectation.

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Alan Watts

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

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Maya Angelou

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

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Adam Smith

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

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Alan Watts

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.

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Adam Smith

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

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Oscar Wilde

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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Maya Angelou

To those who are given much, much is expected.

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Adam Smith

Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

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