348 quotes found
“Live without expectations. Dont set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy al...”
“Expectation kills. Just go with the flow, you might be surprised when something better comes along in an unexpected way.”
“I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.”
“The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the sun for the first time it would be the most fearful and beautiful of meteors. Now that we see ...”
“History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them”
“If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands.”
“The past is never a mistake if you have learnt from it. I have learnt never to trust someone so much that it hurts your expectations.”
“We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that Hell do more than we expect.”
“I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havishams. Why of course he is not the right sort of man, Pip, said my guardian, com...”
“If you give, expecting something in return, it's not really giving at all.If you love, expecting something in return, it's not really loving at all.”
“eRemember though, that happiness can never be achieved through the expectations levied on another; such a notion is not doomed to failbut is just doomed! Happiness can never be achieved through the...”
“You don't ask nobody to give what they can't give, or be what they can't be. You've learnt that, you got a headstart on heartbreak.”
“...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will b...”
“I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We ga...”
“Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lotabout the world we live in, and about our own past.”
“Jesus' love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him.”
“You can't give love when you haven't experienced love.”
“True happiness can only be found when you stop worrying about yourself and try to look out for those around you.Helping people can give your life meaning and joy. Don't expect anything in return sp...”
“What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in...”
“No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself.”
