Quotes About Expectations

Much has been written about what makes families work. The consensus is that families that support the emotional well-being and growth of their members combine two almost opposite traits. They combine discipline with spontaneity, rules with freedom, high expectations with unstinting love.

We grow up believing that what counts most in our lives is that which will occur in the future.

But as soon as these basic problems of survival are solved, merely having enough food and a comfortable shelter is no longer sufficient to make people content. New needs are felt, new desires arise. With affluence and power come escalating expectations, and as our level of wealth and comforts keeps increasing, the sense of well-being we hoped to achieve keeps receding into the distance.

Unfortunately, too many adults feel that once they have hit twenty or thirty—or certainly forty—they are entitled to relax in whatever habitual grooves they have established.

Pleasure is a feeling of contentment that one achieves whenever information in consciousness says that expectations set by biological programs or by social conditioning have been met. The

Peasant women in Eastern Europe, for instance, were not judged to be ready for marriage unless they had learned to cook a different soup for each day of the year.

thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for—

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

A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for—rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires.

In each person's life, the chances of only good things happening are extremely slim. The likelihood that our desires will be always fulfilled is so minute as to be negligible.

O el malestar penetrante que a menudo nos amarga hasta los instantes más preciosos es el resultado de buscar la felicidad en el lugar equivocado?

Pleasure is a feeling of contentment that one achieves whenever information in consciousness says that expectations set by biological programs or by social conditioning have been met.

Esta paradoja de las expectativas en alza sugiere que mejorar la calidad de vida es una tarea inacabable.

But personalizing patterns of action helps to free the mind from the expectations that make demands on attention and allows intense concentration on matters that count.

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But the closer we become, the more the relationship will be challenged. Like a river overflowing its banks and moving in new directions, people are unpredictable. When someone we know goes against our expectations, we're uncomfortable and we want to move things back to our set point.

My parents sent my brother through law school. He graduated. Now he's suing them for wasting seven years of his life.

What do you expect from yourself? Is it realistic? Is it even possible? Is it in line with your passions and goals? Is it actually someone else's expectation that you have assumed for yourself? Are you sabotaging your confidence with unattainable or unnecessary ideals?

NEVER Waive Late Charges Once you waive a late charge, you have just trained your resident that you do not enforce them. Stick to your guns.

accurately setting and managing expectations.

There's an abrupt disconnect, of course, that comes from leaving behind all things time and space and learning to maneuver in the unseen. The nature of this transition depends entirely on the beliefs of the dearly departed at the time of transition, because their beliefs and thoughts carry over to their new environs. Even there, thoughts become things, only they become things bigger and faster, arranged to match the expectations of new arrivals, often in the twinkling of an eye.

If you haven't got your life sorted at forty, no one, not even your own mum, is going to hand you a medal and say well done.

You know, I never was your dream girl, was I? And you certainly weren't my dream guy. We just sort of drifted together. And you've got to know that if things had stayed the same and my dream guy had turned up—" "I would've been in the way." "And vice versa.

In church politics, you're surprised when people are bad, while in secular politics you're surprised when people are good.