Life will fulfill your expectations.
If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.
Expectations create and shape reality.
...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...
You must be engaged with the process of producing something to expect something.
We expect miracles from love but love has only itself to give.
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.
No one is expected to achieve the impossible.
It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable and often impossible.
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.
There's no map there's no master plan there's just people.
Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
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