Expectation Quotes
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"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."
"An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality."
"When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal."
"Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance"
"If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon"
"Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope."
"Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour"of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!"
"When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation."
"Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone."
"It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with."
"Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality."
"Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!"
Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
"I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life."
"It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark hall on winter's nights. Madam, my example comes not from any book of romance. My grandparents walked and breathed; they kissed and quarreled. This I must have, and I will seek it with the point of my knife in a bad husband's heart if I can find it no other way."
"We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations."
"o not preoccupy yourself with wants or expectations. The world won't abide by the standards, you set in any case, whether you set them too low or too high. It will break them every time for the simple fact that our true essence has no desire, hope or expectation for anything. It has no selfish inclinations of any kind. Everything, it experiences, is a passing phase, not its real identity."
"The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never done."
"Hope is expectant longing."
"Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope."
"Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them."
"I have a headache. If only I had a crown to put on!"
"It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished."
"Expect good to happen in your day and you'll find that good things start to happen."
"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
"I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations."
"I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid."
"Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy,The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again."
"I got married. A bright past is ahead of me!"
"The world believes ‘asakti’ [infatuation, attraction of atoms] to be love and (then) become confused. Woman has some work from men and men has some work from women. All this has arisen because of work (expectations). If work does not get completed, all within will complain and form an attack. Not for even a second has anyone become one’s own. Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] will become yours. That is why the Lord has said, ‘Every living being is an orphan’."
"The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, ‘you can keep on burning!"
"Where our own mind doesn’t listen to us, how can other’s minds follow what we say? One should not have such expectation at all."
"Peace beginsWhen expectation ends."
"Postmen have a legendary aura. A ring at the doorbell may inflame a sense of expectation, suspense, secrecy, hazard or even intrigue. Ringing twice may imply a warning that trouble is on the way or an appeal to make the coast clear. Not all mailmen, though, will ring twice and await an eye-catching Lana Turner, whom they can whisper: "With my brains and your looks, we could go places.” ("The postman always rings twice")"
"I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment."
"Human being may fail you, but God will never forsake thee."
"Do not expect much from humans. Expect much more from God."
"Do not expect anything from any one."
"It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet."
"No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles."
"People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words."
"Hope is a gracious expectation."
"Embrace each day with divine expectation."
"All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy."
"Don't spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn't write that's been fed to you - that simply you've accepted, embedded and added to. Let the story go and there beneath is the real you...and your unique gifts, heart and path that await you."
"Awaken each day with the expectation that something wonderful is about to happen."
"Your wish has be granted by God. Time will make it manifest."
"Hope is a great expectancy."
"Pray for what you want.Expect your answer in due time.Be strong to wait for the arrival of answer."
"We live in a world where expectation exceed inspiration"
"How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world quanter, funnier, kinder, and more mysterious than it actually was."
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