Expectations Quotes

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There is nothing positive about being fat. And there is nothing positive about loving yourself. We all need to conform to society's expectations of who… — Marilyn Monroe
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. — Idries Shah
I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is… — BrenÃ© Brown
If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a… — Geoff Dyer
I donâ€™t know. What do people see when they gaze at the sky? Inspiration? Beauty?â€ She heard him sigh. â€œTruth be told, this view always… — Tessa Dare
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments… — Surya Das
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation. — Cinda Williams Chima
Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse… — Abraham Maslow
People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is… — A.C. Grayling
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.... — Barack Obama
If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation.… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. — George Eliot
I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash… — Karen Marie Moning
For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and… — Susanna Kaysen
I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be… — Paulo Coelho
Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. — Rumi
With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly… — Lauren Oliver
Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little… — Anne Lamott
Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake… — Joseph Conrad
In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words… — Nicholas Sparks

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