Expectations Quotes

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I donâ€™t know why life isnâ€™t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations,… — Anne Lamott
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock… — Jasper Fforde
Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need… — Cinda Williams Chima
I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed. — Julia Glass
expectation isn't the same as desire — Margaret Atwood
He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation. — Margaret Atwood
You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live… — Italo Calvino
Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed… — Karen Russell
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. — William Shakespeare
Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all. — Jodi Picoult
Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should… — Martin Heidegger
... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations. — Deepak Chopra
To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent… — Osamu Dazai
Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control. — Yasmine Galenorn
Don't you know that there's another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts ...... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to… — Edward Rutherfurd
Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many different people in… — Joyce Meyer
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you donâ€™t expect anything, you donâ€™t get disappointed. — Patricia McCormick
Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what… — Shane Claiborne
I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be. — Beatrice Sparks

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