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.

We can make our own plans and judge them by our narrow expectations, or we can experience life as the boundless reality of the One who created it.

Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one’s head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with...

Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or...

You get what you expect in life.Expect great things in life.Live your best life.

She looked around her apartment which seemed to be waiting for something. Lana hated that, when the room was a pregnant pause.

Patience from a Buddhist perspective is not a “wait and see” attitude, but rather one of “just be there”… Patience can also be based on not expecting anything.Think of patience as an act of being...

It’s no use going the extra mile if people don’t expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.

To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

To Stanley Ager, the gift of human “service” was no one-way loyalty. He clearly gave his all to the families he served but, though he was almost too polite to state this, his expectation of...

When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over...

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

The lesson here is that high expectations can be counter-productive. We probably can do more to affect the quality of our lives by controlling our expectations than we can by doing virtually anything else. The...

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Your success lies in your own hands. You must therefore not wait for the grass to become greener by magic. You have the hands to irrigate your own territory by doing what is expected of...

Be realistic with your expectations. I’d really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Desire great things in life.Expect great things in life.

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is… we cannot expect things to be much better in this world… We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any...

Carrying an aggressive attitude is to expect cool shadow under a naked Tree

Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be...

You’ll have less heartaches and disappointments if you stop seeking from others the things ONLY God and you can give yourself!

He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he...

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

Expectations create and shape reality.

It’s easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

You don’t ask nobody to give what they can’t give, or be what they can’t be. You’ve learnt that, you got a headstart on heartbreak.

I can’t imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

You can’t expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Forgive your past because it the vehicle through your process and from this point forward your life is made of 100% future; Caterpillars always look up despite having no wings… and butterflies don’t waste time...

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent...

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular.

We as human being do dream & do expect a lot for what we are not entitled but there comes a phase when we get what we have never expected or dreamt of…. So, Accept...

Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your...

I like to switch things up by keeping things the same. People never expect it.