348 quotes found
“What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.”
“Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.”
“When I tried to meet some impossible standard for motherhood, tried to earn my way to a weird sort of Proverbs 31 Woman Club, I collapsed in exhaustion and simmering anger, sadness, and failure. Th...”
“I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.”
“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 beneat...”
“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
“After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any gi...”
“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need...”
“Don’t help anybody’s expectation of you to grow. Don’t even give them a hint that you will fulfill it. Whatsoever suffering you pass through, be ready to pass through it, but don’t allow others to ...”
“Don’t expect miracles why you have not done anything.”
“What are you? Do you know? What you are is you're always trying to smooth everything over. What you are is always trying to be moderate. What you are is never telling the truth if you think it's go...”
“Right expectations, from the right people at the right time, that’s the art of expecting.”
“She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.”
“Don't you wanna be a great baseball player?” He sighed back into the wall. “I want to be a great man, Fielding.” And so we stand, proved of our existence by those who see us. And how did I see Gran...”
“Love doesn't fail us, it's our expectations that fail us. Lovers sometimes forget that the gift is the call to love itself, and not the result. The quickening, the deepening, the merging, the burni...”
“Her family was counting on her—to be responsible, to get good grades, to follow the rules, to be the good example. And more important, she expected those things of herself.”
“He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.”
“Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to sing about the darkness shimmering beneath the shiny quilt of American pop culture. I suppose yo...”
“Daniel: So, how are you?Sophie: Buckling under the weight of a thousand expectations. You?”
“Do not lower your expectations in order to avoid hurt. Instead, keep your expectations high and learn to tackle with disappointments.”
