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.
Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.
Often expecting immediate returns for goodness in this world is a sign of a normal human being
When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing.
Sadness comes from expectations. To be happy, adapt to everything and expect nothing.
If you want to be outstanding, stop meeting expectations, start exceeding them
Expectations have no effect on the harvest.
Disappointment comes from ExpectationExpectation comes from intimacyIntimacy comes from common interestAnd common interest comes from friendshipSo to nurture friendship, abandon expectation
You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic d...
Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover,...
Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.
In war more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently from what we had expected and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.
The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.
Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people.
Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective
Zero Expectations? What's that? I believe in Smart 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.
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.
There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards but because they are men.