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If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there's always going to be expectations.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.