Expectation is the root of all heartache.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

A desert is a place without expectation.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

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.

The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but dont. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things you know

If you expect nothing you can never be disappointed.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises.

I wasnt disappointed. My expectations had been met.

To wish was to hope and to hope was to expect

You dont ask nobody to give what they cant give or be what they cant be. Youve learnt that you got a headstart on heartbreak.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

We must expect everything and fear everything from time to time.

Ive always liked rooms where the party hasnt started yet...I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party when anything already has happened theres usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasnt all youd hoped it to be.

Does your reality match your expectations If not its time to change either your expectations or your reality.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.

Quershya eso pero esperaba ms. Sufre uno por aquello que espera ms que por lo que quiere. Aceptamos que los deseos puedan ser imposibles pero jams las expectativas que son como las deudas del destino.

Its okay. Youre going to save me Miss Maylene. The girl gave her a genuine look of happiness. I know it. I knew if I found you everything would be okay.

I a product of the New Frontier and Great Society honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a livingall I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality because you never know when you will be disappointed.

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

When people starts to enjoy a writers pen he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you would you forget who you really were What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it

Nexigez pas beaucoup et vous ne serez pas decu. Dont expect much and you wont be disappointed.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words motion defense offense back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready fists up words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence No.

Its easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

He expected too much from people that was the problem Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

I put certain expectations on my players and I expect them to live up to those expectations every game we play. This team enjoys playing the game of football and they are showing it with their play on the field.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

You see what you expect to see Severus.

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldnt do but in the end you had to decide for yourself.

Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she dida home someone to lean on when the notsoperfect times came crashing down

I cant imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

There were two ways to be happy improve your reality or lower your expectations

That was the thing about the world it wasnt that things were harder than you thought they were going to be it was that they were hard in ways that you didnt expect.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave sometimes you pretend that you are even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne 8 September 1935

Mrs. Lynde says Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

A successful person expects a clapping hand an ailing person expects an open hand.

It's bittersweet, … It didn't work out here. It's something I've got to swallow. They had high expectations and I had high expectations for myself. For some reason… I've got to put it on myself. But it happened.

Act without expectation.

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.

Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.

And by the way if I always tell you the truth you might start to believe me.

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

If you expect nothing from anybody youre never disappointed.

...and tomorrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.

We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws

I am afraid I shall disappoint peoples expectations dreadfully.

The experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. 16

High expectations lead to higher disappointments.

I dont demand much. All I expect is for you to love me so much you kill yourself just to get my attention.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

She was heavier than he expected women always are.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

Fortunately I read the books without knowing what I was in for and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me I loved something that by conviction or by my nature I should not have loved

Dont water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join.

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

Freedom is to stand naked at the moment having no expectations nothing to lose or to gain. The empty then is fulfilled just to be emptied again at the next moment. The Absolute Freedom is to become every path at any given moment.

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

Yet how bored they both looked and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a windshaken poplar.

Id rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Toat lumea se ateapt ca educaia s fie un drept fundamental i nu pun mare pre pe ea cnd o primesc

you are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection in yourself and others you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

Nowadays I dont have expectations and this way she beats them all.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

You cant expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

He was swimming in a sea of other peoples expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

When I finally saw the film, I was floored because it was more than I even expected it would be, and I already had very high expectations.

My expectations are sky low because Im standing on a mountaintop.

I mean like most guys you carry around this girl in your head who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.

Never give meaning to a little act of sweetness. It might give you a wrong impression or expectation.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and should be.

Water shrinks wool urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse according to expectation.

Eccentricity may be diverting Mama but it is out of place in a wife certainly in my wife

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.