Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.
I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.
Hope begins in the dark.
You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.