[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing.
We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant...
We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.
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.
Take that chance :even though this is hard, you'll get it in a peace.Leave that chance :i know it's easy, but you will always walk in regret
Not always what you expect is what you wanted
Everything is supposed to be something. But it never is. That's the nature of existence.
If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.
If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential for the eye which ever young and ardent sees the possible ... what wine is so s...
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
What have you done to qualify yourself for the miracles you are expecting.
People should not expect to reap if they have not sown.
Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfill. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try,...
Life will fulfill your expectations.
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
i prefer people see me sit in the corner, shut and look stupid, rather see me look smart and cool..i disgust a high expectations of people on me because I don't want to have to live in this world with...