348 quotes found
“Happiness and success require the highest possible optimism, with minimal expectations. Optimize without limits, and expect anything in particular.”
“Expectations is the mother of all negative energies within in you...”
“Expectations are the rumors we spread inside us.”
“Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfill. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you t...”
“This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays, an idea of infinite possibility.”
“Love is respect,recognition and honourgiven without expectation.”
“Progress is a collection of expectations set and met.”
“Everyone wanted me to feed them that storydarkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.”
“Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.”
“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...”
“[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.”
“Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?”
“People who sit and expects miracles are wicked.”
“When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing.”
“People should not expect to eat if they did not work.”
“People should not expect to reap if they have not sown.”
“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 expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
“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.”
