Expectations are the rumors we spread inside us.
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 of othe...
What you want may not come in the form you expected. It may be right under your nose at this moment.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read...
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.
People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.
Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.
Issues arise not from expecting too much from people, but too little.
Your success does not depend on who you are but what you are and the strength of your expectations.
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.