43 Quotes About Expectation

When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal. Paulo Coelho

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. Jodi Picoult

It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark hall on winter's nights. Madam, my example comes not from any book of romance. My grandparents walked and breathed; they kissed and quarreled. This I must have, and I will seek it with the point of my knife in a bad husband's heart if I can find it no other way. Roberta Gellis

We measure time through a mental framework trussed with two major stakes: memory and expectation. Memory is that spottiness that takes place behind the eyes: memory takes place in the cloistered theater that houses diffused still pictures. We file mental pictures that encapsulate our prior life into mental shelves for a wayward librarian to cull through and forward select recollection to the recall center whenever summoned. Expectations arise from thoughtful consideration of our future prospects in life. . Kilroy J. Oldster

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. . Alan W. Watts

Do not expect much from humans. Expect much more from God. Lailah Gifty Akita

Peace begins When expectation ends. Sri Chinmoy

All my ways of being are musical and mysterious. Yet I embrace you openly. Ripe with expectancy. Maya Angelou

Awaken each day with the expectation that something wonderful is about to happen. Charles F. Glassman

We live in a world where expectation exceed inspiration Louise Philippe Dulay

People live on the flow of the daily reality and they surge on the waves of hazy expectations. They can experience pleasant junctures and try to catch and enjoy each special moment that is offered to them. Until life takes them by surprise. Erik Pevernagie

Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it. Martin Heidegger

Any tiniest feeling, which fills you with peace and joy can grow to the size of a mountain, when you act on it with no expectation, where and how it must take you. Enjoy the moment of harmony and know that you can trust your Self. Raphael Zernoff

An expectation is a thought. It has no power or influence. Dee Dee Artner

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within. H.P. Lovecraft

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love. Criss Jami

That was what made traveling appeal to him - he always made new friends, and he didn't need to spend all of his time with them. When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. Paulo Coelho

Is God present or is he absent? Maybe we can say now that in the center of our sadness for his absence we can find the first signs of his presence. And that in the middle of our longings we discover the footprints of the one who has created them. It is in the faithful waiting for the loved one that we know how much he has filled our lives already. Just as the love of a mother for her son can grow while she is waiting for his return, and just as lovers can rediscover each other during long periods of absence, so also our intimate relationship with God can become deeper and more mature while we wait patiently in expectation for his return. . Henri J.m. Nouwen

The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there. Marty Rubin

Love hurts because we think that's what love is. Marty Rubin

People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own. Aleksandra Ninkovic

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. George Eliot

Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don't waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence. Chris Vonada

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. Hunter S. Thompson

I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister, and I was introduced to every niece and sister-in-law in a hundred miles. In retrospect, I'm very grateful for whatever reluctance it was that kept me alone until your mother came. Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what I was waiting for. Marilynne Robinson

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. Idries Shah

When you get married or get a job, you are signing a contract that you will now not only live your expectations but other’s expectations also. Harrish Sairaman

Mirrors are liars. They tell us what we expect to see. Susanna Fraser

There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you. T.F. Hodge

Those who show no loyalty give up the right to expect any. Dan Groat

He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time, and liked yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing Mary Robison

I am more than what they say I am. John OCallaghan

I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life. Anne Lamott

I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house "in case anything turned up " which was his favorite expression. Charles Dickens

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. Ivan Illich

Life is largely a matter of expectation. Horace