Expectations Quotes

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You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that… — Lisa Kleypas
werenâ€™t you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. — Bette Davis
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected. — Norton Juster
You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write,… — Stephen King
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality… — Jodi Picoult
What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've… — Jodi Picoult
Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it." "Of course… — Cassandra Clare
Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your… — Paul Murray
I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions,… — Maggie Stiefvater
I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that… — Maggie Stiefvater
I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too."… — Simone Elkeles
I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still… — Stanislaw Lem
I was rejected, never given any expectations. ... Then at least, I won't be a burden to others. It's alright if the only one who… — Jun Mochizuki
I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my… — Mindy Kaling
Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his mouth devouring her.… — Gena Showalter
What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity. — Richard Carlson
That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they… — Lev Grossman
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment. — Jane Austen
If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. — Tonya Hurley

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