Quotes About Expectations

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

No being can make another one happy.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

No one has a right to happiness.

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

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

Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.