Quotes About Expectations

But I am fearful of it because I hear she is learned in the Four Books, and learning has never accompanied beauty in women.

They too struggle with the expectation to look sexy but not to feel sexual, to provoke desire in others without experience it themselves. Our daughters may not be faced with the decision of whether to strip for maxim, but they will have to figure out how to become sexual beings without being objectified or stigmatized.

Young women today are sold the idea that sexiness is the same as sexuality, that being desirable is more important than understanding their own desires.

There is, it's worth noting, no "Mom-with-three-ungrateful-children Barbie.

We've raised a generation of girls to have a voice, to expect egalitarian treatment in the home, in the classroom, in the workplace. Now it's time to demand that "intimate justice" in their personal lives as well.

Rather than freedom from traditional constraints, then, girls were free to choose them. Yet, the line between get to and have to blurs awfully fast.

It's just, honey, Cinderella doesn't really do anything.

We are learning to support girls as they 'lean in' educationally and professionally, yet in this most personal of realms, we allow them to topple. It's almost as if parents believe that if they don't tell their daughters that sex should feel good, they won't find out. And perhaps that's correct, they don't. Not easily anyway. But the outcome is hardly what adults could've hoped.

If toting the standard equipment is not what male or female, exactly what does? well, duh, its barrettes. At least thats what kids think it is your clothing, hairstyle, toy choice, favorite color. Slippery stuff, that. You can see how perilously easy would be to err

You should never have expectations for other people. Just be kind to them.

To think that we can finally get it all together is unrealistic.

We think we'd be delighted to have an unconditional relationship, but that's only as long as it's on our own terms.

Cutting our expectations for a cure is a gift we can give ourselves.

We suffer... because of three tragic misunderstandings. First, we expect that what is always in the process of change should be graspable and predictable... Second, we proceed as if we are separate from everything else, as if we are a fixed identity, when our true situation is egoless... Third, we look for happiness in all the wrong places. The Buddha called this habit "mistaking suffering for happiness.

To think that we can finally get it all together is unrealistic. To seek for some lasting security is futile.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that's one of the absurdist expectations of all.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist