Quotes About Expectations

I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed.

no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it

Estadísticas aparte, Lewis pasaría a la historia por ser el economista que había ideado una fórmula para la felicidad: R/E, o, lo que es lo mismo, Realidad dividido por Expectativas. Había dos caminos para ser feliz: o bien mejorar la realidad, o bien rebajar las expectativas.

It's called acting. It's not all that difficult to be the person people expect you to be. It's harder to remember who your really are.

But you know how women are.  They're not happy unless they're complaining about something.

That's love for you. When it's good, it's magic. When it isn't, it just pees all in your soup.

You have to learn to follow your heart. You can't let other people pressure you into being something that you're not. If you want God's favor in your life, you must be the person He made you to be, not the person your boss wants you to be, not even the person your parents or your husband wants you to be. You can't let outside expectations keep you from following your own heart.

I see it routinely when I get asked to speak at conferences. I'm supposed to come cheap because, after all, I'm just a farmer. If you're smart and capable, you become a doctor, engineer, lawyer, computer technician --- anything white collar. For goodness' sake, don't wear a blue collar. That makes your mother and me a failure and our friends will wonder about our family.

But the way an eloi has to darken her eyelashes every morning, cover her skin with colored cream, powder her nose and forehead all day so it doesn't shine, freshen her lipstick over and over, and then take it all off at night. It's like the myth of Sisyphus in Hades, rolling the rock up the hill just to watch it roll down again.

Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken.

This is the internal tragedy of love. If love is successful, if our love is returned and develops into a relationship, the person we are with must turn out to be other than we imagined them to be. Love craves closeness, and closeness always brings us face to face with something other than we expected.

If that child dreaming by the wireless had been asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, what I had become was more or less what he would have described, in however halting a fashion, I am sure of it. This is remarkable, I think, even allowing for my present sorrows. Are not the majority of men disappointed with their lot, languishing in quiet desperation in their chains?

In sum I'm not what either parent or I had in mind. One hoped I'd be astonishing, forceful, triumphant—heroical in other words. One dead. I myself conventional. I turn out I.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

Trying harder doesn't always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up.

Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial. The denial forces members to keep believing the myths and vital lies in spite of the facts, or to keep expecting that the same behaviors will have different outcomes. Dad's not an alcoholic because he never drinks in the morning, in spite of the fact that he's drunk every night.

The roles are like scripts given out for a play. They prescribe what feelings you can or cannot have. After playing my Hero role for years, I no longer really knew who I was.

This continent is littered coast to coast with people who were compelled to study business administration when they should have been painting murals or practicing the fiddle or digging a truck garden, and finally got their chance when it was twenty years too late to lead them anywhere.

We've exalted our womenfolk into little tin gods, and at the same time left them out of the real business of life.

There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better person you might have been.

The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

Sometimes we are afraid because success puts pressure on us to continue to succeed.

A person with a negative self-image will expect the worst, damage relationships, and find others who are similarly negative.