“Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.”
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American clergyman and writer 1955Related quotes
“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”
Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes
Variant: There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Damned
Variant: No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
Source: Damned (2011)
“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
“If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.”
Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943) British scientist
Beautiful Minds (2010)
Context: I find that quakerism and research science fit together very, very well. In quakerism you're expected to develop your own understanding of god from your experience in the world. There isn't a creed, there isn't a dogma. There's an understanding but nothing as formal as a dogma or creed and this idea that you develop your own understanding also means that you keep redeveloping your understanding as you get more experience, and it seems to me that's very like what goes on in "the scientific method." You have a model, of a star, its an understanding, and you develop that model in the light of experiments and observations, and so in both you're expected to evolve your thinking. Nothing is static, nothing is final, everything is held provisionally.