100 Quotes About Expectation

Most of us have them, but do we know how to set the right ones? It’s important to set realistic expectations with others, but it’s equally important to understand your own. If you don’t know what your expectations are, then you will never know if you are truly happy or fulfilled. So read on to discover what are your expectations are, why they are there, and how you can set them properly.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to...
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect Jane Austen
Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love,...
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Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself. Steve Maraboli
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Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. Patricia McCormick
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21....
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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)] Stephen Hawking
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
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Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. Brian Tracy
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If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me, If only your heart ever, craves for me or my presence… If only you feel that love again someday for me, If only you are affected someday by my absence… Only you can end all my suffering and this unbearable pain, If only you would know what you could never procure… If only you go through the memories of past once again, Since the day you left my heart has bled, no one has its cure… If only you would bring that love, those showers and that rain… If only you would come back and see what damage you create, I’ve been waiting for your return since forever more… If only you would see the woman that you have made, You said we cannot sail through, how were you so sure? If only you can feel the old things that can never fade, You may have moved on, but a piece of my heart is still with you… I know how I’ve come so far alone; I know how I’m able to wade, People say that I’m insane and you won’t ever come back again… Maybe you would have never made your separate way, Maybe you would have stayed with me and proved everyone wrong… If only you would know the pain of dying every day, If only you would feel the burden of smiling and being strong… . Mehek Bassi
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Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise. Vera Nazarian
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It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. Fulton J. Sheen
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You don't seem mad at all, ' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete? Paulo Coelho
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Naive people tend to generalize people as–-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the world is not the wisest or the most spiritual, in all matters. We are all flawed. Maybe, you didn’t know a few of these things about Einstein, but it puts the notion of perfection to rest. Perfection doesn’t exist in anyone. Nor, does a person’s mistakes make them less valuable to the world. 1. He divorced the mother of his children, which caused Mileva, his wife, to have a break down and be hospitalized.2. He was a ladies man and was known to have had several affairs; infidelity was listed as a reason for his divorce.3. He married his cousin.4. He had an estranged relationship with his son.5. He had his first child out of wedlock.6. He urged the FDR to build the Atom bomb, which killed thousands of people.7. He was Jewish, yet he made many arguments for the possibility of God. Yet, hypocritically he did not believe in the Jewish God or Christianity. He stated, “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind. . Shannon L. Alder
Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom....
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Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment. Rasheed Ogunlaru
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I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations. C. Joybell C.
When you fall short of your goals and dreams ask...
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When you fall short of your goals and dreams ask yourself is it your mindset, perspective, expectations, effort, approach, acceptance, company or a blend of these that needs to change. Rasheed Ogunlaru
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It only hurts us to love when we do so with expectation. And that’s not really love, anyway. Love has no expectations, no qualifiers, no conditions. Love is pure, untouched by our mind’s demands, untainted by our desperation and fear. Love can only be beautiful. It can only be divine. No, love doesn’t hurt, not when it’s real. Love empowers. It strengthens. It reminds us who we really are and why we’re really here. Love, more than anything else in this entire world, heals us. Scott Stabile
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The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them. J. Cornell Michel
Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations....
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Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it. Rasheed Ogunlaru
Because it's worth dreaming and expecting the best from you...
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Because it's worth dreaming and expecting the best from you and others, because once you fulfill your dreams you can make other people happy as well. Ana Claudia Antunes
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When you expect nothing and receive something, it's such a nice surprise. I'm not saying to be pessimistic. Just when it comes to other people, don't hinge your happiness to expectation and outcome. Don't make it tit for tat. Don't keep score. Don't expect or demand something back. Do the best you can. Work passionately towards your dreams. Be a good person. Liberate yourself from expectation so much that when something does happen: when someone does do something nice, you can be surprised. Celebrate in that joy. It makes it all the more fun when it comes unexpectedly! Expectations in relationships suck all the gratitude and appreciation out of everything. Beyond honesty, respect and basic decency nothing need be "expected". Let it occur naturally. Go with the flow. Whatever you end up with will be more honest and real. . Akiroq Brost
You just cannot have the same thing twice without being...
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You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed. Vann Chow
What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a...
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What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing. Gabrielle Dubois
Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are...
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Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations. Rasheed Ogunlaru
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When a soothing wind blows gently love through the thistledown of expectations, hope may inveigle the future for timeless care and tenderness to be anchored in a bay of good luck. ("Happiness blowing in the wind" ) Erik Pevernagie
Attachment and Expectations are the two biggest killer elements of...
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Attachment and Expectations are the two biggest killer elements of happiness in everyone's life. Learn the art to monitor and control these killers to bring happiness back in your LIFE! ! ! Santosh Adbhut Kumar
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never...
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Alexander Pope
It's okay. You're going to save me, Miss Maylene.
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It's okay. You're going to save me, Miss Maylene." The girl gave her a genuine look of happiness. "I know it. I knew if I found you everything would be okay. Melissa Marr
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We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations. Kilroy J. Oldster
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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
Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather,...
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Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Most sane human beings who are over the age of...
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Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
My expectations for the future? A beautiful past.
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My expectations for the future? A beautiful past. Ljupka Cvetanova
When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we...
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When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results. Debasish Mridha
To win, expect to win. Expectations create reality.
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To win, expect to win. Expectations create reality. Debasish Mridha
Life will be perfect if your expectations and responses to...
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Life will be perfect if your expectations and responses to events are humble and perfect. Debasish Mridha
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The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written., 8 September 1935) Dorothy L. Sayers
Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this:...
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Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people. Brenda Ueland
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I'm determined that I won't give up on my dreams for anything. I have evolved in these years. Learned and outgrown a lot many things including the unrealistic expectations of my family, fake relationships, society's criticism, surpassed people who are intimidated by my outspoken nature, Faux friends and especially the people who disappear in dark whenever they think its easier for them to do so. I have grown over stupid and useless conversations. The insecurity and the feeling of self doubt. I have never been less burdened. Parul Wadhwa
Whenever you are being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, endeavor...
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Whenever you are being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, endeavor to speak against it, endeavor to stand up against it, and expect to see change. Sunday Adelaja
We must stop expecting the government to play the role...
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We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch. Sunday Adelaja
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Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life... Tayeb Salih
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A world full of "certainties"All the plans, all the vanities. Where black covers the white Suited in "confidence"- the constant fight. A million roads I dream to take One destination, knowing not I turn where. A green veil covers for two years, some two decades. But the "plan" awaits, new roads to make. I pant, I struggle, I do my best While they say, " You are, dear, but so inadequate". Sanhita Baruah
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As long as high schools strive to list the number of Ivy League schools their graduates attend and teachers pile on work without being trained to identify stress-related symptoms, I fear for our children’s health. I am not mollified by the alums of my daughter’s school who return to tell everyone that the rigor of high school prepared them for college, making their first year easier than they’d anticipated. If they make it that far. Candy Schulman
The key in letting go is practice. Each time we...
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The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are. Sharon Salzberg
There are two ways to avoid getting disappointed. Expect everything...
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There are two ways to avoid getting disappointed. Expect everything - or expect nothing. Hasse Jerner
I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations.
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I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations. Parul Wadhwa
Expectations are emotional signposts that stunt your growth.
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Expectations are emotional signposts that stunt your growth. Balroop Singh
The world awaits your products. Humanity lives in eager expectation...
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The world awaits your products. Humanity lives in eager expectation of your products. Begin to convert your time into products. Begin to gain the mastery over your talents and gifting. Sunday Adelaja
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Humanity lives in eager expectation of your products. Sunday Adelaja
Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in...
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Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically. Sunday Adelaja
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity. Rachel Carson
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Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Virginia Woolf
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[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men — and learned men among them — have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two .. but, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators — it would take too long to mention their names — it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women. Christine De Pizan
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As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which remind us of a vast scale can free us from acquisitiveness and competitiveness and from our likes and dislikes. If we sit with an increasing stillness of the body, and attune our mind to the sky or to the ocean or to the myriad stars at night, or any other indicators of vastness, the mind gradually stills and the heart is filled with quiet joy. Also recalling our own experiences in which we acted generously or with compassion for the simple delight of it without expectation of any gain can give us more confidence in the existence of a deeper goodness from which we may deviate. (39) . Ravi Ravindra
[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but...
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[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16) Joseph Campbell
What is essential is to suddenly make a move totally...
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What is essential is to suddenly make a move totally unexpected by the opponent, pick up on the advantage of fright, and seize the victory right then and there. Miyamoto Musashi
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It is easy to see how quickly expectations become layered, competitive and conflicting. This is how the shame web works. We have very few realistic options that allow us to meet any of these expectations. Most of the options that we do have feel like a "double bind." When Marilyn Frye describes a double bind as "a situation in which options are very limited and all of them expose us to penalty, censure or deprivation. . Unknown
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At times what you expect and what happens don’t match. The faster you accept and adapt to what happened & work towards creating what you believed, that what you expected gets created in a whole new way..! Sujit Lalwani
People are never going to act exactly like we want...
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People are never going to act exactly like we want them to. So if we stop expecting things from others, we’ll find peace in our hearts that will last a lifetime. Ron Baratono
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It’s the beating of my heart. The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up my wall. The gentle moonlight slipping through my window and the sound of a lonely car somewhere far away, where I long to be too, I think. It’s the way I thought my restless wandering was over, that I’d found whatever I thought I had found, or wanted, or needed, and I started to collect my belongings. Build a home. Safe behind the comfort of these four walls and a closed door. Because as much as I tried or pretended or imagined myself as a part of all the people out there, I was still the one locking the door every night. Turning off the phone and blowing out the candles so no one knew I was home. ’cause I was never really well around the expectations of my personalityand I wanted to keep to myself. and because I haven’t been very impressed lately. By people, or places. Or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind. Charlotte Eriksson
I must not expect everyone to act or think like...
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I must not expect everyone to act or think like I do as God has created each of us differently. Norhafsah Hamid
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Expectations are at war, if good feeling and discomfort clash. When we are expecting zest and joy, our good karma may be ousted by distress and frustration, if negative downbeat waves are emitted. Just with a feel of realism, without prejudice, should we step into the future. What will be, will be. Only the fortune of war will tell, since life may be war or peace. ("Fish for silence.") Erik Pevernagie
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them,...
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Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. Brandon Sanderson
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations...
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A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams. Dejan Stojanovic
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Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the outer perimeter regarding what we can experience and learn. Our inaugurating dreams are unlimited by physical reality and our genetic composition. There will always be an unbridgeable rift between countless combinations of human dreams and the infinity of reality, unless we accept what we are without wishing to be something else. . Kilroy J. Oldster
And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a...
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And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went. J. Courtney Sullivan
Your life is made up of your dreams and your...
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Your life is made up of your dreams and your realities, your expectations and your possibilities. Debasish Mridha
Set great expectations for yourself.
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Set great expectations for yourself. Lailah Gifty Akita
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to...
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect. Jane Austen
Life is full of wonders, but you ca't have rainbows...
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Life is full of wonders, but you ca't have rainbows without rain, lightning and thunder O. S. Hickman
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Freedom is to stand naked at the moment, having no expectations, nothing to lose or to gain. The empty then is fulfilled, just to be emptied again at the next moment. The Absolute Freedom is, to become every path, at any given moment. Grigoris Deoudis
If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done...
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If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields. Criss Jami
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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Unknown
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There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon the imprint his imagination has foolishly taken of women, is fanning the flames within himself -- and, since the woman knows nothing about it, she is not to blame. For if a man incites himself to drown, and will not restrain himself, it is not the water's fault. John Gower
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There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"" Are you a young lady?"" I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated. Unknown
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I don't want them to think that we dress like savages, ' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and he was struck again by the religious reverence of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.' It's their armour, ' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it.' And he understood for the first time the earnestness with which May, who was incapable of tying a ribbon in her hair to charm him, had gone through the solemn rite of selecting and ordering her extensive wardrobe. Edith Wharton
You'll find that more doors open if you approach them...
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You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind. Rasheed Ogunlaru
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And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead. Jodi Picoult
Always expect that something beautiful and wonderful will happen to...
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Always expect that something beautiful and wonderful will happen to fill life with beauty. Debasish Mridha
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Standards are not established by your proclamations they are established by your routines. T Jay Taylor
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It is much easier to evaluate perfect rather than partial results. Fred Lowe Soper
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Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died. Dan Groat
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If the fruit (of your effort) is to your expectations, it is the effect (prarabdha, result) of your merit karma [punya karma], if it is not to your expectation, then it is the effect of your demerit karma [paap karma]. Dada Bhagwan
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Are you able to remain humble and kind when things do not go the way you want or expect? Be kind when you are in pain; be kind even when your life seems to be falling apart around you. Be humble not only when you succeed but also when you fail. Kindness in word and action, and humble in thought and belief. It is important to not only say and do the ‘right’ thing, it is important to also think and believe it - which is being genuine in nature of peace embodiment. . Alaric Hutchinson
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A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman.’ Yet, when beauty is all that is expected or desired in a woman, she is left with nothing in its absence. It ‘is a most severe trail for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources, ’ she argued. . Karen Swallow Prior
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Peace begins When expectation ends. Sri Chinmoy
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Happiness is good management of expectations and good management means making order and assembling the contingent elements of the "do's'" and the "don'ts", the "maybe yes'" and the "maybe not's". When we really want to live in agreement with ourselves and find peace with the surrounding world, good management is liberating. ( " Expectations " ) Erik Pevernagie
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Giving without expectations is the ultimate secret source of abundance. Debasish Mridha
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Positive expectations create a positive life. Debasish Mridha
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How much you can love others without expectations will define who you are. Debasish Mridha
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Life will fulfill your expectations. Debasish Mridha
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You will get what you want, but you have to expect it with your open heart. Debasish Mridha
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Every time you give away love without any expectations, you become richer. Debasish Mridha
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When Sweetu wasn’t being reduced to merely existing as a bride, as a piece of meat to be handled and prodded, to have decorative contraptions stuck into her skull, her interests were otherwise unexpressed. She rarely complained, hardly asked for anything, and maybe that’s because Indian girls grow up going to weddings and we watch the procedure and we know our roles: be demure, don’t complain, cry but don’t scream, get tea for anyone older than you, and calmly meet expectations. Scaachi Koul
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You boys are really turning into a bunch of Peter Pans, " he said. "Willem, what are you? Thirty-six? I'm not sure what's going on with you lot. You’re making money. You've achieved something. Don't you think you guys should stop clinging to one another and get serious about adulthood?" But how was one to be an adult? Was couplehood truly the only appropriate option? Hanya Yanagihara
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People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words. Sanhita Baruah
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Not always what you expect is what you wanted Ameya Agrawal
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Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return. Criss Jami
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In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness Rasheed Ogunlaru
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When our expectations differ from better, we think bitter, but that is not better! Stay better, think positive, no matter what; there is always a better lesson to learn! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true Rasheed Ogunlaru
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If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time. Mark W. Boyer