Expectations are emotional signposts that stunt your growth.
Don't expect anything except yourself.
Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-mo...
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.
I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand.
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
Genius does what it must talent does what it can.
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Som...
Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals " or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain li...
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Good is not good, where better is expected.
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
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