...if you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best...""and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass.

Brad Meltzer
About This Quote

The above quote is a Zen Buddhist proverb. The punchline of the joke is that nothing actually blows up, but our expectations are blown away. It may be true that you won't get the best of anything if you don't think you will. And it may be true that you won't get the worst of anything if you don't expect to. But it's also true that neither of those things will happen if you don't even try to get something at all.

Source: The Millionaires

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