"Our lives are shaped not as much..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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“I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.”
“Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.”
“When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.”