“How do you get to be a person who is made miserable because the weather changed its mind, because the weather doesn’t live up to your expectations? How do you get to be that way?” — Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
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“Try believing the evidence instead of insisting that the cameras must be at fault because what they saw was not what you expected.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
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“After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?” — Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
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“I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” — Richard Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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“We don’t become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon.” — Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
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“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.” — Richard Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.” — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.” — Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
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“It is fashionable to speak of political leaders in terms of their charisma. But charisma without substance is a dangerous thing. It creates expectations that cannot be satisfied.” — Kim Campbell, Candidate Speeches, Social Credit Leadership Convention (1986-07-29)
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“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” — Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
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