Quotes About Expectations

You can't eat straight A's.

We ask a great deal of the world at first -- then less -- and then less.

I have found that one of the commonest causes of unhappiness among my patients is that they are attempting to live their lives on the deferred payment plan. They do not live, or enjoy life now, but wait for some future event or occurrence. They will be happy when they get married, when they get a better job, when they get the house paid for, when they get the children through college, when they have completed some task or won some victory. Invariably, they are disappointed.

In expecting to grow "old" at a given age we may unconsciously set up a negative goal image for our Creative Mechanism to accomplish.

You can be happy now as well as every single day you are working toward achieving your goals. When you discover happiness along the way—instead of expecting that you can only be happy once you've achieved a goal— then you've already fulfilled the promise of Psycho-Cybernetics.

Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories are silly and unrealistic, we are telling young girls not to expect to be the heroines in their own real lives.

Like the world had met her low expectations.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

Svakome cu priznati pravo da me prevari, osim prijatelju

Je li to mudrost, da ne o?ekujemo mnogo ni od sebe ni od drugih? Je li to gubitak ili dobitak, ako saznamo pravu vrijednost, svoju i tu?u? Gubitak je što je ta mjera sitna, a dobitak što ne tražimo više.

Za svakoga imamo razumijevanja osim za svoje najbliže, smatramo da nam njihova vjernost prirodno pripada, kao vlastita koža.

Young people think love is mathematics. They think if you add it up and add it up and keep adding, you can save it until you're ready to cash it in. But it doesn't work that way. You might be making the deposits, but your whole life cashes the checks. Work, children, bills—it all takes its cut. Then you go back to love, thinking it'll be there, and sometimes it's not.

Each time someone told her, "You have such a pretty face," she felt as though they wanted to sever her head from her body, to discard the meat of her and leave the small round disk of her face as her one saving quality. She was supposed to be grateful for his attention

You can be the smartest, most beautiful woman in the world," Nyela said, "but if you can't control your weight, you won't be happy.

High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life—those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in high school? High school is something everybody should be ready to lose.

Little parts of my heart break off then, for Finn, for Ruby, for Charlie, for me, for all the ways we've let ourselves become who people think we should be instead of who we really are.

Was this just what relationships were like these days? Whatever you felt like with whoever was there?

I shall bring him his tea and work myself to death by the time I am thirty bearing children and scrubbing floors and working in the fields digging turnips till my hands bleed and my back gives out and everyone urges me to keep on for just one more year, at which point I will die of exhaustion and the meagerness of my own life. I will love him and care for him, will never tell him to get his own tea, or sweep the ashes from the hearth or give birth to his own twelfth child himself.

A vihar elÅ'tti csend pont jó kifejezésnek t?nt arra, ahogy akkor és ott beugrott: akármilyen boldog voltam is abban a percben, de az addigi életem hozzászoktatott, hogy a dolgok nem úgy alakulnak, mint a szabványos hollywoodi könnyvfakasztóban. A vak lányt nem az év Oscar-várományosa játssza, a nyomorék fiú nem kezd csodálatos módon járni, és nem vigyorogva megy haza a tömeg.

But, she knew, you didn't have to marry your soulmate, and you didn't even have to marry an Interesting. You didn't always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.

I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.

And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?

Though Jonah felt transfixed inside his own childhood, no one else saw him as a child. He was already over the hump of middle age, heading rapidly toward those year that no one like to speak of. The best parts had already passed for people Jonah's age. By now you were meant to have become what you would finally be, and to gracefully and unobtrusively stay in that state for the rest of your life.

For women in 1956 were always confronting boundaries, negotiations: where they could walk at night, how far they could let a man go when the two of them were alone. Men hardly seemed troubled by these things; they walked everywhere in cold, dark cities and pin-drop empty streets, and they let their hands go walking, too, and they opened their belts and then their trousers, and they never thought to themselves: I must stop this right now. I must not go any further.