"I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had."

-- Jim McDonald

#Expectations Quotes #Inner Peace Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.”
“We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.”

Source : Luigi Pirandello (1985). “Three plays”, Methuen Drama
“I don't do things that are comedic. This is such a crazy idea.”
“Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.”
“I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.”
“Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.”
“We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.”

Source : "In This 1995 Column, A Newsweek Writer Says Internet Hype Is 'Baloney'" by Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. April 8, 2013.
“Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.”

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