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“Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.”

Source: The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know

“Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams.”

Enough Dream Running Our Lives Expectations Areas Hopes And Dreams

Book:Meb For Mortals: How to Run, Think, and Eat like a Champion Marathoner

Source: Meb For Mortals: How to Run, Think, and Eat like a Champion Marathoner

“We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.”

People Our Lives Expectations Endure Burden Prisoner One Time Despise

Book:Exile: The Legend of Drizzt

Source: Exile: The Legend of Drizzt

“Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.”

Our Lives Expectations

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Whether we experience it or not, grief accompanies all the major changes in our lives. When we realize that we have grieved before and recovered, we see that we may recover this time as well. It is more natural to recover than to halt in the tracks of grief forever. Our expectations, willingness and beliefs are all essential to our recovery from grief. It is right to expect to recover, no matter how great the loss. Recovery is the normal way .”

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Author:Judy Tatelbaum

“Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and when our expectations of what life should be diverge from the reality of what life really is.”

Should Reality Pain Grows Views Our Lives Failing Trouble Expectations Point Of View Bitterness

Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"”

Men Believe Soul Ends Self Helping I Believe Our Lives Expectations Fellows Selfishness Fellow Man

Author:Misty Upham

“One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does this by generating explanations of behaviors on the basis of our self image, images, memories of the past, expectations of the future, the present social situation, and the physical environment in which behavior is produced.”

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Author:Joseph E. LeDoux