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“The first rule of a happy life is low expectations. If you have unrealistic expectations, you’re going to be miserable your whole life. You want to have reasonable expectations and take life’s results good and bad as they happen with a certain amount of stoicism.” -Charlie Munger
"In 2004 The New York Times interviewed Stephen Hawking, the scientist whose incurable motor-neuron disease left him paralyzed and unable to talk at age 21. Through his computer, Hawking told the interviewer how excited he was to sell books to lay people. “Are you always this cheerful?” the Times asked. “My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus,” he replied."
The Psychology of Money -Morgan Housel (Great Book!)