Happiness Declines in Proportion to Your Expectations

The more you expect from life, the more it disappoints you. The less you expect, the more it delights you. Whenever I've expected nothing from creative endeavors, dates, and almost every other situation in my life, I'm always pleasantly surprised. It's better to be pleasantly surprised than... See more

Our degree of satisfaction is critically dependent on our expectations. The greater our hopes, the greater the risks of rage, bitterness, disappointment and a sense of persecution. We are not always humiliated by failing at things; we are humiliated only if we first invested our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then did not reach

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