Quotes About Expectations

Happiness (t) = w0+ w1 ?t?jCRj+ w2 ?t?jEVj+ w3 ?t?jRPEj Which all boils down to: Happiness equals reality minus expectations.

Next time you're about to rule out some guy because he's not your ideal, try to focus on the good things about him, because some guy is going to have to focus on the good things about you, even though he may have wanted someone more easygoing or taller. Every time you start to dissect some guy, note that he's willfully ignoring all of this in order to go out with you.

You can let more people into the mix who could possibly make you happy. Or you can hold out for that two percent of men who you assume meet your requirements, and hope that coincidentally, someone in that two percent feels that you're in his two percent. And even then, the people you assume to meet your requirements might in fact not be the right fit for you.

Which all boils down to: Happiness equals reality minus expectations.

Sometimes the changes you want in another person aren't on that person's agenda

You know what I love about Rosie?" he says. "She's the only one who doesn't ask things of me. The only one who isn't, in one way or another, disappointed with me—or at least, she wasn't before she bit me! Who wouldn't love that?" He laughs loudly, like we're at a bar and he's just tossed out a breezy one-liner.

succinctly summarized this sentiment: "Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously,

A felicidade equivale à realidade menos as expectativas.

Until you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good" you may deprive yourself of joy.

Well, sure, the vows say "in sickness and health" and "for better or worse" and all that, but that's kind of like clicking okay to the terms and conditions when you download an app or sign up for a credit card. You don't think any of that is going to apply to you.

I told Greenwald that I didn't consider these factors when I was ten years younger and waiting for just the right guy to pop into my life. It seemed reasonable to think that the longer I searched, the better the guy I'd end up with. But it's faulty logic, she said: The longer you wait, the less likely you are to find someone better than you've already met.

There is no such thing as a perfect name.

Relax your expectations, in fact, purposely lower them so low that you feel excitedly naughty about showing up to perform your work with reckless abandon. If that's hard, open to doing it that way just 5%. Deliberately perform below your skill-level to get started and to see what ideas fall out of a relaxed approach. And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you'll truly be an artist of being alive.

I had wanted to get married, but I realized now that I never wanted to be a 'wife.

My favorite definition of fear is "False Expectations Appearing Real

When I married Mr. Right, I didn't realize his first name was ALWAYS.

Why do men think they can get away with it? Because they're men.

wasn't looking too cheerful. God, and who could blame her? She was about to have a baby and it had all gone pear-shaped with the father;

She drew in a breath. "So I have this thing I do before sex. A test. An 'Is He Inhaler Worthy?' test." He just stared at her. "There's a test. Before sex." "Yes. And I should tell you, not many pass." "Chloe?" "Yeah?" "I'd be worth the inhaler," he said, then forced himself to walk away into the night.

All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.

Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible." PHOEBE TRAEGER

But dammit, she was tired. Tired of doing what was expected, tired of feeling like she was missing something.

Why do you get to act all crazy over a guy and I don't? Anna asked. You have to earn the crazy, Grace said. You're not old enough yet.

He slid a hand into her hair, tightening his grip enough to lightly tug her head up so that she was looking into his eyes again. "Don't make promises you can't keep.