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There is abundant reason to believe that optimism – big, little, and in between – is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.
CHRISTOPHER PETERSON, American Psychologist, Jan. 2000
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?
BILL WATTERSON, The Days are Just Packed
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
SAMUEL JOHNSON, Letter, Jun. 8, 1762
It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
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