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“When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particu...”
“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is differen...”
“Life is all about Expectations verses Reality, be in reality.”
“Every encounter with the external world presents a conflict with a persons cherished inner world. How we resolve these ongoing boarder conflicts between reality and ideas results in tectonic shifts...”
“You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.”
“..if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was ahurricane.”
“Expectations have no effect on the harvest.”
“The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow - slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it, she ought t...”
“Failure exists. Yes! Failure exists. Dont expect to meet all your expectations in life; however, expect to do everything you must do to realize your expectations and success. These two things succe...”
“Plans are fragile things, and life often dashes expectations to the ground.”
“She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.”
“Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.”
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
“Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.”
“Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadnt come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. A...”
“Discover a deep, healthy love for yourself....Relationships are meant to complement your life not complete it. If you're unable to bring a healthy sense of self-love into them you will always be se...”
“We never want to be taken for granted, but our partners should be able to expect our honest loyalty. That is a powerfully strong foundation block for a relationship. I want to meet the greatest exp...”
“Should we expect our physical, sexual, intellectual, and emotional intimacies to automatically continue throughout a marriage? Nope. At least, not in my opinion. But I do think we should be able to...”
“You need to claim the driver's seat," Cash said. "Never take a backseat in your own life! You gotta take that bitch by the steering wheel with all your might - even if the road is bumpy, even if th...”
“Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I shou...”
