People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. — Samuel Butler
People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. — Samuel Butler
People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. — Samuel Butler
People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. — Samuel Butler
People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. — Samuel Butler
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People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

— Samuel Butler
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim. — Graham Greene
We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves. — William Styron
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. — Bernard de Fontenelle
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. — May Sarton
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As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. — J. A. Froude
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing. — Dr. Harriet Braiker
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A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. — Alexander the Great
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It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive. — Bertolt Brecht
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and — Helen Keller