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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."

[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]”
― Stephen W. Hawking

“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring

“...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,â€� exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.â€� But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.â€�...”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.”
― Shannon L. Alder