2026 Reading Challenge

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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Donald Miller
    “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
    ― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
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  • #4
    Jodi Picoult
    “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
    tags: expectations, image, self-image
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  • #5
    Bill Watterson
    “I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: expectations, humor
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  • #6
    Alison McGhee
    “You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
    ― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow to the Sea
    tags: expectations, powerful, silence
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  • #7
    Valery Satterwhite
    “Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.”
    ― Valery Satterwhite
    tags: acceptance, expectations, letting-go
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  • #8
    Paulo Coelho
    “When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: expectations, life, people, philosophy
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  • #9
    “I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.”
    ― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
    tags: expectations, men
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  • #10
    Charlotte Brontë
    “If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, expectations, false-belief, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, illusions, misconceptions, misogyny, stereotypes, women
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  • #11
    C.S. Lewis
    “We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: expectations, experience, grief, mourning, others, personal-experience, reality, suffering
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  • #12
    Brian Tracy
    “Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”
    ― Brian Tracy, Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
    tags: attitude, educational, expectation, expectations, life, personality, positive, teaching, wisdom
    388 likes

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  • #13
    Lisa Kleypas
    “You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon
    tags: enemy, expectations
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  • #14
    Julia Glass
    “I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.”
    ― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere
    tags: expectations
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  • #15
    Jonathan Lockwood Huie
    “A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.”
    ― Jonathan Lockwood Huie
    tags: expectations, gift, love, openness, wonderful
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    Lev Grossman
    “We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.”
    ― Lev Grossman
    tags: expectations, meaning, reality, world
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    Jordan Belfort
    “When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.”
    ― Jordan Belfort
    tags: life, love, motivation, success
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    Jordan Belfort
    “No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.”
    ― Jordan Belfort
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    Jordan Belfort
    “Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny , they’re not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance, if the circumstances around them suck they change them.”
    ― Jordan Belfort
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  • #20
    Jordan Belfort
    “There’s no nobility in poverty.”
    ― Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street
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  • #21
    Jordan Belfort
    “They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.”
    ― Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street
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  • #22
    Jordan Belfort
    “Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.”
    ― Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street
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  • #23
    Jordan Belfort
    “I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
    ― Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street
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  • #24
    Pablo Neruda
    “In this part of the story I am the one who
    dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
    because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: devotion, love
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  • #25
    “To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.”
    ― Bill Wilson
    tags: devotion, inspirational, love
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “How far should a person go in the name of true love?”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
    tags: devotion, love, self-sacrifice, true-love
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    William Goldman
    “I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: codes, devotion, ignorance, love
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  • #28
    “I love you and it's getting worse.”
    ― Joseph Morris
    tags: devotion, humor, love
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  • #29
    Beth Moore
    “The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.”
    ― Beth Moore
    tags: devotion, love, marriage
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  • #30
    “Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?”
    ― Lily Tomlin
    116 likes



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