Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.― H.L. Mencken

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The silence in the morning holds lots of expectations and is more hopeful than the silence at night. – Victoria Durna

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Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

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Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up! — Caroline Myss

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Expectations tend to be self-fulfilling.

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Houston is a place where you have to be the best. Everybody gotta be flashy, flashy. It's not like a gaudy thing, but people definitely put on their best dressed even if they go into Wal-Mart.- Megan Thee Stallion

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I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? ― Markus Zusak

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A mathematical formula for happiness: reality divided by expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations. — Jodi Picoult

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Keep moving, no matter how slow you move, you will definitely arrive at your destination. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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