“The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.”
“Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.”
“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”
“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”
“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.”
“The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life”