If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.
Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
Better is the enemy of the good.
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Messy" is a word we use to explain a conflict with an expectation we had. Eliminate the expectation, and you eliminate the "messy".
When you stop expecting miracles, life is the miracle.
The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.
Disappointment resides in expectation. Showing a little regard creates consideration, which results in understanding. Steps to a peace of mind.
The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the sun for the first time it would be the most fearful and beautiful of meteors. Now that we see it...
Since I will never know what the future holds, I choose to live my life expecting great things
Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life..
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?
Progress is a collection of expectations set and met.