Quotes About Expectations

You don't expect me to be doing this when I am THIRTY, do you?

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.

reality is never as perfect as fantasy.

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

"What's for dinner?" is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Ne'er look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Não esperes nunca de mim que eu seja fiel a qualidades que não tenho. O que podes contar é com as que tenho, porque nessas não te falharei nunca.

This paradox of rising expectations suggests that improving the quality of life might be an insurmountable task. In fact, there is no inherent problem in our desire to escalate our goals, as long as we enjoy the struggle along the way. The problem arises when people are so fixated on what they want to achieve that they cease to derive pleasure from the present. When that happens, they forfeit their chance of contentment.

Yet even if their advice were to work, what would be the result afterward in the unlikely event that one did turn into a slim, well-loved, powerful millionaire? Usually what happens is that the person finds himself back at square one, with a new list of wishes, just as dissatisfied as before. What would really satisfy people is not getting slim or rich, but feeling good about their lives. In the quest for happiness, partial solutions don't work.

One of the simplest ways to decrease the frequency of negative thoughts is by selectively moderating expectations.