Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it’s the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and...

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far moreconfidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to haveyou reach after Him by faith. He longs...

When you let it go with love, but without expectations, it is forever yours.

Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make...

And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he...

We expect miracles from love but love has only itself to give.

I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand.

Ogni mediazione proietta un suo miraggio; i miraggi si susseguono come altrettante “verità” che subentrino alle verità anteriori come una vera e propria uccisione del ricordo vivente e si proteggano dalle verità future con una...

You don’t seem mad at all,’ she said.But I am, although I’m undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of...

Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn’t seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn’t be...

Indeed, she had the whole of the other sex under her protection; for reasons she could not explain, for their chivalry and valour, for the fact that they negotiated treaties, ruled India, controlled finance; finally...

People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.

Your Potential can far exceed your expectations

I don’t expect you to except me, but I do expect you to accept me.

We’re constantly judging and grading other parents, just to make sure that they aren’t any better than us. I’m as guilty as anyone. I see some lady hand her kid a Nintendo DS at the...

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

I wasn’t disappointed. My expectations had been met.

What they have been teaching us is wrong. Yes, we do have control over our choices. Why? Because life gave us the freedom to choose. The only downside to this freedom are the insatiable consequences...

Let go of all expectations, and you shall never be disappointed. I find that rather disappointing to never be disappointed is very expected. Therefore let’s only let go of those expectations we know will disappoint...

To avoid being disappointed, avoid placing your expectations on others. Love lets them be who they are and it allows them to react the way they want to react.

…when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you’re free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Do you know that pain of leaving when you look back expecting to see a face waving goodbye at you but all you see is a dark abandoned corner?There won’t be any reason to return...

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.