A Quote by Michael J. Fox

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Michael J. Fox

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Happiness Acceptance Direct Expectations Grows Inverse Proportion

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Michael J. Fox
Canadian - Actor
Born: June 9, 1961

I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

Michael J. Fox

There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.

Michael J. Fox

I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.

Edward Hallowell

What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

John Ruskin

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

Oprah Winfrey

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

Lane Kirkland

Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged - well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in - to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.

E. M. Forster

The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented degree and a proportion of sort of figures of policy substance is unprecedentedly low. But the word unprecedentedly can be applied to simply everything that's happening this year.

Mark Colvin

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

Ann Beattie

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

Don Meyer

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

Calvin Trillin

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.