Top Expectations Quotes

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.

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.

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.

When you expect nothing and receive something, it's such a nice surprise. I'm not saying to be pessimistic. Just when it comes to other people, don't hinge your happiness to expectation and outcome. D...

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

Most of the times reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.

Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

I wish if I could fulfill the expectations of others. Life is unpredictable and there is no more humanity

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

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...

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.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.