Some expectation are inevitable but the problem happens when we are not able to measure the likelihood of reciprocation or fulfillment. We fail as measuring instruments, and so we drag & impose our ex...
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.
We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
I wish if I could fulfill the expectations of others. Life is unpredictable and there is no more humanity
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
Moderation in war is imbecility.
Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never hav...
You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect.
Positive expectations create a positive life.
If the fruit (of your effort) is to your expectations, it is the effect (prarabdha, result) of your merit karma [punya karma], if it is not to your expectation, then it is the effect of your demerit k...
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
You should only expect something from your efforts.
Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.
There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and...