Expect Nothing Quotes

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When you give, expect nothing from people and everything from Allah. — Omar Suleiman
When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing. — Darren Criss
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.… — Alan Paton
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who… — Jean-Paul Sartre
As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations but being open… — Marketa Irglova
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes — Miguel de Cervantes
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and… — Andre Breton
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. — Ram Dass
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it. — Malcolm Forbes
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. — Alexander Pope
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. — Alice Walker
Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised — Daniel Defoe
Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short… — Alice Walker
If you expect nothing from anybody, youâ€™re never disappointed. — Sylvia Plath
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. — Ayn Rand
- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise?… — Vladimir Nabokov
pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer,… — Haruki Murakami
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. — James Hillman
Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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