Every time they saw him, they recognized him and knew him and expected things of him. And every time he came up blank. It was like watching someone digging where they knew they’d buried something...

The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one’s new beau consistently failing to meet...

We are all made good and positive declaration about the year 2015. We are all expecting breakthroughs in our lives, new things to happen to give us life changing. Guess what my friends, nothing is...

Because sometimes people expect more, they expect their desires to be met, they fancy a future built on the pillars of their faith.But love is weak and impermanent and thus when the time comes, the...

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Free yourself from the expectations of having to be right with the wrong information.

Perfection in any field does not come from dreaming to be perfect, yet from allowing your brain to trust the actions of your body and your body to trust the knowledge of your brain.

This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us a standing ovation, but no-o-o-. Do you know why half the audience stood up?””To...

I was always here for you,you knew you could count on me and trust me blindly, and you knew that I would never tell you a lie or do anything that would hurt you. My...

Don’t assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let them know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions.

No wonder women don’t negotiate as often as men. It’s like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels.

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let...

Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty clung...

Your attitudes, action, reactions and expectations are harboured in the power of your thoughts. Think positively and you will smile at the harvest time.

Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.

I’ve always liked rooms where the party hasn’t started yet…I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there’s usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn’t...

When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver’s seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are...

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any...

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than...

Jesus’ love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him.

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

If you don’t get disappointed when you raise your expectations; you don’t get appointments from where your mind is not!

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in...

…You don’t always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. … Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be...

Don’t you know there’s another bubble as well? An expectations bubble. Bigger houses, private planes, yachts… stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst...

Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.

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.