In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is…only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can...

Although we may encounter dark seasons, when we’re filled with joy we’ll have confident expectations that the sun will soon return and dark clouds will pass.

Most of the times reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

Shoo. Away with you. It’s my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Don’t expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people.

The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is...

Expectation wasn’t just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

Dan P. McAdams argues that children develop a narrative tone which influences their stories for the rest of their lives. Children gradually adopt an enduring assumption that everything will turn out well, or badly, depending...

People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.

Do not lower your expectations in order to avoid hurt. Instead, keep your expectations high and learn to tackle with disappointments.

Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I’ve been asked if I related personally to Carrington’s tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I’d had a very...

What’s the first sign of a lurking, hidden expectation you didn’t know you had? Pain! People don’t do what we want, things don’t happen quickly enough, the weather doesn’t cooperate, our bodies don’t cooperate. Why...

It’s okay. You’re 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.

Phoebe doesn’t quite believe in fate the way I do. She says you have to chase your destiny, and she always expects life to be like a romantic comedy: all you have to do is...

[T]he 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)

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful aspects of performance (even when the success...

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

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

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

other person” plays Hell trying to make-up for it. Married, divorced or dead, the ‘other person’ can never replace what was lost so muchearlier in the life and soul of the oppressed. Forgiveness must be...

if we could tax Americans’ cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they’re human beings, and they want high services, low taxes, and an omnipresent, omniprominent...

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Take that chance :even though this is hard, you’ll get it in a peace.Leave that chance :i know it’s easy, but you will always walk in regret

Nobles with competent fathers perhaps. I spent my formative years at my aunt’s at Huffington Manor. She held a daily salon, where a dozen noble ladies came to discuss all manner of philosophical topics, like...

Be Happy & Appreciate Every Little Thing You Have/Get Because When You Get The Big Thing, The Happiness Would Be Unbound….

If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you’ll be content most of the time.

Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made–that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall take priority over love, dreams, the spirit, the...

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author,...

Who gets to be the judge of reality? If it was deeply felt, believed, spoken about often or altered your life course, then it was real enough. Faith doesn’t get the luxury of all those...

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

After that, a strange thing happened: Amy couldn’t stop her expectations from rising. She imagined herself transformed and beautiful, like Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, with her homemade dress and mysterious lace boots. She...

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

N’exigez pas beaucoup et vous ne serez pas decu. Don’t expect much, and you won’t be disappointed.

This is going to seem bitter but I don’t mean it that way, V., I’m just stating a fact here: you’ll only ever call me if I call you first. Have you noticed that? If...

rapture” – words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

You have to love what you do, to give your best.

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...

A feeling struck me one fine day that people call ‘love’,Before that my life was empty, all I had was loneliness and sorrow…I loved the way it felt being with him, for I felt up...

Let today mark a new beginning for you. Give yourself permission to say NO without feeling guilty, mean, or selfish. Anybody who gets upset and/or expects you to say YES all of the time clearly...

Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected

Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.

Even the ones who love you most will let you down. They are the ones who will disappoint you more because your expectations of them are higher. When you feel like they have let you...

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

It’s true, though, others won’t understand me. I know that. I’m still an alien in the American Christian subculture.Each evening I retreat from it, and I go straight to the Gospels.It’s not out of duty...