This is so true! I love the collection of quotes about expectation, but your summary I think is even more insightful: "I create most of my misery." Another way to put this is as Tony Robbins did: "you make your own happiness."
If expecting certain events to happen brings unhappiness when they don't happen, then one way to counter that is to increase your overall happiness. There are many ways to do this, but one simple one is to find comedy and laugh as much as possible, for example, by watching funny movies:
This is so true! I love the collection of quotes about expectation, but your summary I think is even more insightful: "I create most of my misery." Another way to put this is as Tony Robbins did: "you make your own happiness."
If expecting certain events to happen brings unhappiness when they don't happen, then one way to counter that is to increase your overall happiness. There are many ways to do this, but one simple one is to find comedy and laugh as much as possible, for example, by watching funny movies:
9 Movies To Start You (Or Keep You) Laughing
https://moviewise.substack.com/p/be-relentlessly-happy