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“Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.”

Way Firsts Ends Pleasure Journey Eternal Expectations Shame Vain Anticipation Crowns Fruition

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.”

Love Perspective Involved Expectations Shame Sexuality Enormous Degrade

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”

Source: Great Expectations

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”

Knows Needs Heart Hard Earth Heaven My Own Awareness Tears Expectations Rain Shame Sorry Dust Gentle Ashamed Cried Ingratitude Great Expectations

Book:British Classics: Great Expectations

Source: British Classics: Great Expectations

“Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.”

Values Identity Essentials Expectations Performances Bases Shame Guilt Judgement Framework Shack

Author:William P. Young

“Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest.”

Mean Persons Past Grief Letting Go Expectations Shame Blame Grieving Mourning Censure

Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.”

War Past Our Lives Plans Regret Ambition Expectations Shame Guilt Caught Caught Up

Author:Jack Kornfield