Expectations Quotes

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Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You have to learn to follow your heart. You canâ€™t let other people pressure you into being something that youâ€™re not. If you want Godâ€™s… — Joel Osteen
If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride,… — Rick Warren
(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. — Julio Cortazar
Expectations are resentments under construction. — Anne Lamott
I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs… — Jeff Lindsay
My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast… — Joe Biden
With every lecture, youâ€™re forced to look again at every choice youâ€™ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these… — Chuck Palahniuk
Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier.… — Sarah Addison Allen
The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and… — Sigmund Freud
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens
But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with… — Sherman Alexie
Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity. — Umberto Eco
It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. — Robert E. Lee
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. — Douglas Adams
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone… — Jean-Paul Sartre
To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; andâ€¦though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a… — William P. Young
When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions donâ€™t contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and… — Rhonda Byrne
If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick… — Nicholas Sparks

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