348 quotes found
“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll keep resentment far away.”
“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower 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.”
“Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness”
“A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you 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. ”
“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 ...”
“Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...”
“I had no friends. Was I happy? I was wildly happy. Sitting on my bed, which took up most of the space in that narrow room, I whispered prayers of thanks that I was really and truly here in New York...”
“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.”
“What do you expectnot indifference or ingratitude? (-Miss Benson) It is better not to expect or calculate consequences. The longer I live, the more fully I see that. Let us try simply to do right a...”
“You get greatness out of people by expecting it.”
“In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.”
“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...!!!”
“To live with hope is to seek heavenly help.”
“Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustnt shirk it. Love, after all, 'hopeth all t...”
“A human beings perception of reality emanates from viewing the universe, which is in a constant state of creation and destruction. The universe in which we move and work in outlasts human interests...”
“Disappointment comes from ExpectationExpectation comes from intimacyIntimacy comes from common interestAnd common interest comes from friendshipSo to nurture friendship, abandon expectation”
“The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.”
“When expecting from your dear ones is a mistake, telling them not to expect is a blunder!”
