Expectations Quotes
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
"When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are."
"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."
"It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished."
"I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations."
"Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed."
"You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle."
"When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]"
"An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality."
"There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations"
"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect"
"Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise."
"When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood."
"A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect."
"Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning."
"You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?"
"The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them."
"Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books."
"The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth."
"Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it."
"Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity."
"I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?"I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations."
"Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness"
"When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over U...!!!"
"Always expect that something beautiful and wonderful will happen to fill life with beauty."
"Every time you give away love without any expectations, you become richer."
"Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating."
"Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing."
"A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient."
"When somebody tells you nothing is impossible ask him to dribble a football."
"The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability."
"So often we search out the impossible and then throw ourselves into trying to do it."
"Prospect is often better than possession."
"Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she was soft."
"Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself."
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]"
"Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality."
"Plans are fragile things, and life often dashes expectations to the ground."
"Yes, sex is troublesome and beautiful. And only when we drop our expectations, and know that we'll have moments of great sex and moments when our sexuality confounds, pains, or infuriates us, will we be liberated to enjoy it in a way that's true to ourselves."
Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
"I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?"
"Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment."
"I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations."
"When you fall short of your goals and dreams ask yourself is it your mindset, perspective, expectations, effort, approach, acceptance, company or a blend of these that needs to change."
"It only hurts us to love when we do so with expectation. And that’s not really love, anyway. Love has no expectations, no qualifiers, no conditions. Love is pure, untouched by our mind’s demands, untainted by our desperation and fear. Love can only be beautiful. It can only be divine. No, love doesn’t hurt, not when it’s real. Love empowers. It strengthens. It reminds us who we really are and why we’re really here. Love, more than anything else in this entire world, heals us."
"One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn."
"You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed."
"Because it's worth dreaming and expecting the best from you and others, because once you fulfill your dreams you can make other people happy as well."
"What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing."
"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."
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