"The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness."

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Source : Dov Davidoff (2017). “Road Dog: Life and Reflections from the Road as a Stand-up Comic”, p.153, St. Martin's Press

Dov Davidoff

#Happiness Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Unhappiness Quotes

“When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When a child's life is full of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, people, and places, he will learn. When he feels safe and loved, he'll learn. When parents begin to recover from their own ideas of what learning should look like (what they remember from school) they will begin a new life of natural learning, too.”
“There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.”

Source : Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.76, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Being a warrior doesnâ€™t mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.”
“My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.”
“Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.”
“The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.”

Source : Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.49, John Wiley & Sons
“The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.”

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