If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Interpretation
Expecting little can lead to pleasant surprises.
This quote by Malcolm Forbes suggests that having low expectations can make one more receptive to unexpected outcomes. When you do not hold a strong anticipation for a particular result, you leave room for surprise, thereby allowing even the smallest positive outcomes to bring joy and satisfaction.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing life's uncertainties.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
I never allowed other people's expectations to determine whatever course I took. I had to reach a decision about what I was going to do based on what I felt inside myself.
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.
Don't think that because you have to go down in the wash-tub that you are any less a lady!
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
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