Quotes About Expectations

When the time capsule from the past bursts open, flooding her with feelings, she will confuse her traumatic memory from the past with her experience in the present. Painful experiences from the past, if not understood, validated, processed, and integrated with a compassionate and trusted other, will continue to intrude on our present and form our beliefs and expectations of others and life experiences.

There is a popular cartoon that shows a mother talking to her child. "Honey," she says, "when you're older, I want you to be confident, assertive, and independent. But right now I want you to be compliant, quiet, and obedient." Most parents know the feeling: The very same qualities that we want for our children as adults can make life challenging when they're young.

Discipline with young children is mostly about deciding what you will do (and kindly and firmly following through) than with what you expect your child to do.

Understanding child development and age-appropriateness. This is necessary so that parents don't expect behavior of children that is beyond their ability and comprehension.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

You're only young once. That is all society can stand.

Well, being a perfectionist seems okay from the outside, but a perfectionist never enjoys anything, no matter how well it goes, because nothing is ever perfect.

Look, I know from the outside it doesn't look so bad... I know I had all the advantages. I know my parents loved me. But that makes it worse, don't you see?... The way it is, all the unhappiness seems to be my responsibility, my fault.

I lived up to the wishes and expectations of people in authority, not because I was forced to, but because I wanted to. I didn't know anything else.

All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific.

Most moderately active children – as long as they have full stomachs – cope well with exotic experiences, but parents should get fit for their trip. Young children will expect their parents to be All Powerful so they would be wise to prepare properly and arrive with toned quads or they might not keep up on the slopes.

If you come home with your panties still on, I am never speaking to you again.

Any requirements on what this paragon should look like?" Henry started walking backward again. "We took care of that by saying she has to smile a lot. All women are pretty when they smile.

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

People do not cry because it is the end. They cry because the end does not correspond with their imagination of it. Their first choice is always their own imagining; they refuse to be deterred by warnings. They say I choose this because although the price is high the thing itself is more precious, durable and beautiful. The light of imagined events is always so arranged that the customers do not see the flaws in what they have chosen to buy with their dreams.

But her role had changed; she was now available for marriage and her primary task was to find a mate. As Florence and Hugh Bell's daughter, she was expected to make an excellent match. And if there wasn't one here, at least she would learn how to conduct herself for the chase.

Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

In life, we must accept who is asking and accept who is not.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

So remember those who win the game Lose the love they sought to gain In debitures of quality and dubious integrity Their small-town eyes will gape at you In dull surprise when payment due Exceeds accounts received at seventeen

You are only as much as you settle for.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.