Quotes About Expectations

AS AN ADULT, I've found life to be pretty predictable for the most part. Work hard. Set goals. Don't expect anything to be handed to you. Remember that perfection doesn't exist.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.

You may just miss an awesome ride if you only look at happiness as a destination.

What's the going price for a stay-in-the-kitchen wife with big boobs and no demands?

The fantasy is that I could leave and be happier. The truth is I could leave and still be unhappy. - Alice

For you being human means being human and being a woman and being a worker and being everything, everything. Asking a lot? Each of us is asked only for what he can give. Woe betide us, if he doesn't give it all.

The modern world, he thought resentfully, prepares you very poorly for the tests it puts you to.

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

Citizens expect solutions from science for all sorts of social problems: unemployment, depleted oil reserves, pollution, cancer … the path that leads to the answers to these questions is not as direct as a programmatic vision of research would have us believe …

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic.

half-respected conventions spread insecurity and incoherence of behavior rather than freedom and frankness.

One need only remind oneself of all that we expect from life to see how very strange it is, and to arrive at the conclusion that man has found his way into it by mistake and does not really belong there.

Quizá no es el libro que hubiera querido escribir cuando adolescente, pero definitivamente sí, es el que por aquel entonces quería leer.

If being a man is something that required a person to tick off a bunch of boxes, not many people would make it through.

Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed.

You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.

Effort is the cornerstone of success; it brings expectations to life.

My brother was always lookin for a "good" girl. He sure was a fool. What you gonna do with a good girl?

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.