When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing.
There are misplaced expectations, once you recognize those, you are only left with smart ones. To "expect yourself" to expect nothing (from others) is going against human psychology. Expectation is th...
If he loves you he will meet your effort.
We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.
Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life..
Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.
A pint can't hold a quart-if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.
When nobody around you seems to measure up it's time to check your yardstick.
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
May God ... let me strive for attainable things.
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
There is an illusion that has much to do with ... most of our unhappiness. ... We expect too much.
The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.
So often we search out the impossible and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.
To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.
Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read...
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
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