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

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.

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.

We are always afraid to ask because we aren’t afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection

I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham’s. ‘Why of course he is not the right sort of...

I don’t demand much. All I expect is for you to love me so much you kill yourself just to get my attention.

Earwax is nothing more than sound boogers. I’m too congested to hear anything but I love you. Not that I expect you to flick it at me lightly.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

There are times that the emotions we keep in our hearts, no matter how abundant, are better left unexpressed.

Don’t let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow’s blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

Does your reality match your expectations? If not it’s time to change either your expectations or your reality.

All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is here that the competition is the greatest, the expectations most elevated. If the boy would be happier as a telephone...

Our efforts and actions produce results. These results come unlabeled. WE label them as success or failure based on OUR expectations. Don’t forget that these labels are interchangeable if we allow ourselves to be free...

You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.

The pleasure is there; between your expectations and regrets.

No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a...

My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else’s hands, ready to be crushed at any...

I made plans out of hope, expectation, desire, and duct tape, and I broke those plans with my bare hands.

Expectations are made to be exceeded!

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact...

Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn’t interested in this and preferred to sing about the darkness shimmering beneath the shiny quilt of American pop culture. I suppose you could say that...

As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which...

At times what you expect and what happens don’t match. The faster you accept and adapt to what happened & work towards creating what you believed, that what you expected gets created in a whole...

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

Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it’s the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and...

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far moreconfidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to haveyou reach after Him by faith. He longs...

When you let it go with love, but without expectations, it is forever yours.

Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make...

And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he...

We expect miracles from love but love has only itself to give.

I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand.

Ogni mediazione proietta un suo miraggio; i miraggi si susseguono come altrettante “verità” che subentrino alle verità anteriori come una vera e propria uccisione del ricordo vivente e si proteggano dalle verità future con una...

You don’t seem mad at all,’ she said.But I am, although I’m undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of...

Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn’t seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn’t be...

Indeed, she had the whole of the other sex under her protection; for reasons she could not explain, for their chivalry and valour, for the fact that they negotiated treaties, ruled India, controlled finance; finally...

People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.

Your Potential can far exceed your expectations

I don’t expect you to except me, but I do expect you to accept me.

We’re constantly judging and grading other parents, just to make sure that they aren’t any better than us. I’m as guilty as anyone. I see some lady hand her kid a Nintendo DS at the...

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.