To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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Jane Austen
Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself.
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Steve Maraboli
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
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Patricia McCormick
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]
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Stephen Hawking
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
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Brian Tracy
More Quotes By Maurice Maeterlinck
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see evil triumphant; but if you have learned to let your glance rest on sincerity, simpleness, truth, you will ever discover, deep...
Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From that moment, the merest nothing reveals His presence, and the greatness of our life depends on so little.
Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?
For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom, ’ ‘Virtue, ’ ‘Heroism, ’ ‘sublime hours, ’ and ‘great moments of life, ’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it...
