Your success does not depend on who you are but what you are and the strength of your 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)
What you want may not come in the form you expected. It may be right under your nose at this moment.
Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.
May God ... let me strive for attainable things.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Expectations create and shape reality.
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.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.
If he loves you he will meet your effort.
Don't expect anything except yourself.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
I wish if I could fulfill the expectations of others. Life is unpredictable and there is no more humanity