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“In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It’s a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.” Deepak Chopra

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“Stop expecting others to read your mind, to know what you want and need, and to satisfy your unspoken expectations. Stop waiting for people to complete you.” Kristen Moeller

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“Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.” Ernest Holmen

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“I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.” Jorge Luis Borges, “Boast of Quietness”

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“How could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back - if we did not know that every day in life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these ARE that day?” C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

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“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.” Flannery O’Connor

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