Your Potential can far exceed your expectations
Do--what should be done--without expecting anything in return.
What's the first sign of a lurking, hidden expectation you didn't know you had? Pain! People don't do what we want, things don't happen quickly enough, the weather doesn't cooperate, our bodies don't...
Keep your expectation with God only, not with Human.
Falling in love isn't about expectations or an outcome.It is about the sheer, weightless, joyous terror of falling into the universal embrace.
As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.
It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.
A pint can't hold a quart-if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to pr...
It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune...
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
We cannot all be masters.
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.
Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were diffe...
Better is the enemy of the good.
Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals " or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain li...
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.
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