Alain de Botton Quotes, Pride Quotes, Expectations Quotes

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

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You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

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I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

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I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.

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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

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Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

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I'm the master of low expectations.

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Act without expectation.

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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

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