Expectation Quotes

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Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm… — Dalai Lama
It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to… — Lucy Larcom
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones. — Baron de Montesquieu
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was. — John Suckling
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. — Henry David Thoreau
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary… — Sigmund Freud
To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing… — Mark Nepo
Life is largely a matter of expectation. — Horace
When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human… — Sri Chinmoy
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. — Brian Tracy
Communication is an offering. When you tell someone your truth, you must release your expectation of what the other person should do with it. They… — Alan Cohen
For chemistry is no science form'd Ã priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from… — Herman Boerhaave
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. — J. Frank Dobie
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures. — Rajneesh
Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very… — Rajneesh
It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion… — Rajneesh
When there is no expectation there is no possibility of frustration. Expectation is the mother of all frustrations; expectation gone, frustration disappears. And when there… — Rajneesh
The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in frustration, because every… — Rajneesh

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