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.

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.