Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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.
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Life will be perfect if your expectations and responses to events are humble and perfect.
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a...
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.
Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should l...
People expect what they expect.. They never realize the possibility of surprise beyond expectations..!
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
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.
I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.''If...
There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth.
Expect less and Accept more for peace of mind and healthy relationships!
Giving without expectation is the beauty of humanity and its foundation.
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