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.

I wasn’t disappointed. My expectations had been met.

What they have been teaching us is wrong. Yes, we do have control over our choices. Why? Because life gave us the freedom to choose. The only downside to this freedom are the insatiable consequences...

Let go of all expectations, and you shall never be disappointed. I find that rather disappointing to never be disappointed is very expected. Therefore let’s only let go of those expectations we know will disappoint...

To avoid being disappointed, avoid placing your expectations on others. Love lets them be who they are and it allows them to react the way they want to react.

…when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you’re free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Do you know that pain of leaving when you look back expecting to see a face waving goodbye at you but all you see is a dark abandoned corner?There won’t be any reason to return...

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

If I wasn’t the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?

People who don’t expect justice don’t have to suffer disappointment.

The boxer had two black eyes. But that’s to be expected, since he was from Africa.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

I asked her to wear something revealing, so she showed up in a prophet’s toga.

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

power of facing unpleasant facts.” True adulthood begins with doing just that, with renouncing comforting fables. There is something liberating in recognizing ourselves as mammals with some fourscore years (if we’re lucky) to make the...

If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me,If only your heart ever, craves for me or my presence…If only you feel that love again someday for me,If only you are...

We were all made with the potential to be the people we are supposed to be. We all have souls and we all have minds and we all have wills. Many people look at the...

Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and should be.

That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.

It’s the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren’t expecting anything in return.

A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.

If God gives you a seed, He expects you to plant it;if He plants it for you, He expects you to water it; if He waters it for you, He expects you to prune it;...

Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.

You can’t eat straight A’s.

Si hay algo extravagante en el mundo es ver a los hombres, que no conocen a su dios y lo que ese dios pueda exigir más que según sus limitadas ideas, querer, sin embargo, decidir...

I know for a fact the first UFOs reported in modern times, just before the crash at Roswell, were boomerang shaped and were reported as ‘flying saucers’ to describe the motion of their flight, like...

Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be.

Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life..

Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much...

I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company – why – it will be...

I hope I don’t write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself “When did they live?” I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live!...

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be...

Naturally, everyone is expected to enter the future only once, but by the transport medium of dreams, great people enjoy the future twice! They pay a visit into the future by dreaming, and they relocate...

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love...

It’s scary when it’s real. When it’s not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.

We wait expectantly for what we hope for.

I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.

I can’t make sense out of that girl,” he said to the bard, “Can you?” “Never mind,” Fflewddur said, “We aren’t really expected to.

I am full of mistakes and imperfections and therefore I am real …

Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother’s life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there...

If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.