"Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?"
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"Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven."
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"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
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"The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources."
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"I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old."
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"I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure."
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"Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short."
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"The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature)."
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"I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."
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"You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!"
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"If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience."
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"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
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"Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations."
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"A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle."
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"What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope was born the day the first human beings discovered the first bridge and decided not to jump off the bridge in despair, but to cross it"
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"Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-."
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"You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences."
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"A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations."
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"Always do one thing less than you think you can do."
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"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere."
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