I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curfew: my feet were hurting, my hair was slipping free from its pins, and my makeup was getting all...

In a world of increasing uncertainty, expect…

Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did–a home, someone to lean on when the not-so-perfect times came crashing down?

Anticipate the miraculous splendour of everyday wonder.

Seize every opportunity and make it great.

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

Meanwhile she’s coldly interrogating me with her eyes. She’s definitely in charge of this house and this moment. This must be Chloe.She escorts me to a table full of people and presents me. She introduces...

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.

He’s the man we were in search of, that’s true, and yet he’s not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.

I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something back in return. Otherwise, we are constantly being disappointed.” She moved...

Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for...

Toată lumea se așteaptă ca educația să fie un drept fundamental și nu pun mare preț pe ea c nd o primesc!

We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.

Love is a blur. So is this picture. But what do you expect? Murder is fuzzy, like a peach. Yummy!

When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect – we even demand – that it brings us momentous events since the night before…We expect our two-week vacations to be romantic, exotic, cheap, and...

Freedom is to stand naked at the moment, having no expectations, nothing to lose or to gain. The empty then is fulfilled, just to be emptied again at the next moment. The Absolute Freedom is,...

When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and...

If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn’t have found a reason to let you go.

Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.

Life isn’t all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of one or the other that either a bright outlook or dim expectations becomes...

My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect.

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader’s mind. […] Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone...

My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother’s alarmingly narrow ideal, but also for the middle daughter who knew that her in mother’s mind she had already...

People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.

When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment “flattens the terrain of power relations.” In other words, we can talk about doing...

Do someone a favour, you make a friend; favour ’em too much, you make an enemy.

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are...

When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One...

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are...

I never expect appreciation. I always set a deadline for the things I have to do to be a successful person, when I complete them, I give myself a piece of candy, a glass of...

… but he did not tell her, for he realised how petty it would appear to her, and how different from what she had expected, less sensational and less touching; he was afraid, too, lest,...

Loving you is no more a beautiful memory, but now just a pain,I cry and weep every time I walk down the memory lane,Your love always completed me in every sense as a whole,But now...

Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although many Europeans and Americans found tremendous joy in building their relationships around these...

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow – slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it,...

Issues arise not from expecting too much from people, but too little.

If you can’t please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.

Often expecting immediate returns for goodness in this world is a sign of a normal human being

People tend to want to live up to their friends’ high regard.

Here’s a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it’s going to pay off later.

It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it...

The man who said, “Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed,” put the eulogy quite inadequately and even falsely. The truth “Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall...

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others’ expectations of yourself

To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people.

After 25 the only thing you’ll be precocious at is death.

An element of wisdom is knowing that life experiences are blood brothers with climate change, whether you have the resources to detect weather changes, it can still surprise you anytime.