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.

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

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 spread...

My life belongs only to me.I let go of all the expectationsthat others have of me.My life doesn’t belongto anybody, except to meand to Life itself.

Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals.

The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way.

I don’t like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no one for granted.

Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist. But they don’t. And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ’s apostles, they...

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

Only thing that makes us fail in all moments, expectations.

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!

Time to Appreciate

The givers of true love hardly expect perfection

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.

Life was easier when you stopped caring, when you stopped expecting things to get better.

The greatest weapon anyone can use against us is our own mind. By preying upon the doubts and uncertainities that already lurk there. Are we true to ourselves or do we live to the expectations...

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer’s leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;

I hope you do not let anyone else’s expectations direct the course of your life.

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as...

Quería eso, pero esperaba más. Sufre uno por aquello que espera, más que por lo que quiere. Aceptamos que los deseos puedan ser imposibles, pero jamás las expectativas, que son como las deudas del destino.

Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.

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.

Love is a choice. That’s why love it’s one of gods commandments. People love because they trust. People trust because of faith. Love does have expectations. What we expect by love is eternity. We expect...

His thoughts flicked between the confidence of the Anyala Stone, the expectations of his world, and, the certainty of his failure.

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 gain knowledge,...

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

Life is an art of managing conflicts—conflicts between our expectations and perceptions. It is like a tightrope walk. We load our expectations from life on one end of the bar and our perceptions about life...

What is conditional love? Conditional love is an oxymoron. Conditional love is an imposter of love. Conditional love is something other than love, because you cannot conditionalize the un-conditional.

Unexplained isn’t a word it’s a statement of what it meant.And i guess in the real world that definition doesn’t exists in a conceptual way.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn’t that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn’t expect.

Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don’t expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.

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 determine how...

Love and happiness are nothing more but distractions.

If you want to be outstanding, stop meeting expectations, start exceeding them

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words...

a lot of happiness lead a person to disappointments.

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.