Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with...

I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you...

Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement… Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

You can’t expect to reap a harvest that you’re not willing to plant.

Do good and be a good person because that’s just what the Lord expects. There just ain’t nothing special about being and doing good. It’s what the Lord expects…

Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it’s better. Sometimes it’s worse. And sometimes it’s just different. It’s not worth wasting time and energy trying to predict how things are going to...

We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

My expectations are sky low, because I’m standing on a mountaintop.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate.

It’s crazy what a heart blinded by love can lead you to believe.

La vie est belle …..La vie est loca!Sometimes up…Other times downBig smiles….WaterfallsMake the best of it…As no one knows It’s up to you how it goes

I want you.Eena thought the expression on his face—the look in his weary blue eyes—appeared strangely sincere. But there was one thing she had learned from all this: never trust a master of deceit.

It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)

He wanted to be so many people all at the same time. He feared to be a nobody.Only years later did he realize that all he knew was what he didn’t want to be –...

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.

Should’ assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil — improper influence! What old woman’s cackle is that?””Are you a young lady?””I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as...

Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.

The lower your expectation the easier and happier your life will be

Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective

Tell yourself often: I am going to tackle my aspirations head on with the passion and dedication necessary to exceed even my expectations.

You can’t give love when you haven’t experienced love.

I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

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

I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don’t welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself.

On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able to rightly apprehend...

Men marry women hoping they’ll never change. Women marry men hoping they will.

If ever it’s necessary to ride the bandwagon, it’s done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

Expectations define achievement.

The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the sun for the first time it would be the most fearful and beautiful...

I used to dream of true love; now I’m open to false, but convincing….

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

Ask any child who failed to live up to his parents’ idea of success, and you’ll likely hear that they never felt good enough, or that their parents had expectations that they could not live...

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If...

There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.

I loved this place. You could prop up the bar and watch the world go by; no one made you talk or expected anything of you

I want everyone to stop telling me to lower my expectations.

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.