Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.

Expectation is a very powerful creative force.

Expecting defeat more than halves the potency of our effort, and more than quadruples that of our opponent’s effort.

Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.

Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people’s opinions and/or expectations.

Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.

Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.