Quotes About Expectations

In shaking hands I was doing something that I was to do countless times in the years to come: acting in conformity with what others expected of me even though, by the very nature and form of life, I did not and could not share their spirit.

In shaking hands I was doing something that I was to do countless times in the years to come: acting in conformity with what others expected of me even though, by the very nature and form of my life, I did not and could not share their spirit.

the difference between old friends and new friends is that new friends just haven't let you down yet. She told me that everyone has let her down... ... except for me. And all I could think was, give me time.

the difference between old friends and new friends is that new friends just haven't let you down yet. She told me everyone has let her down... ...except for me. And all I could think was, give me time.

It's been my observation I said, "that you humans are more than the sum of your history. You can choose how much of your ancestry to embrace. You can overcome the expectations of your family and your society. What you cannot do, and should never do, is try to be someone other than yourself–Piper McLean.

Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head. Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth.

Not that my regularly scheduled life was so great, but it beat getting judged unworthy by twelve bearded guys named Erik.

Did they live happily ever after? HAHAHAHAHA. No.

Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.

My children are so rarely happy. I...I would like to see you be an exception.

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

Just don't ask me to deliver any more satyr babies and we'll get along great.

You will not find love where you wish or where you hope. ... She forced herself to meet the giant's gaze. I don't define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.

Sam chuckled. "She probably won't be too mad. Go. Get it over with." Easy for Sam to say. She knew exactly where she stood in her relationship with Amir. She was happily engaged and never had to worry about secret kisses under blankets because she was a good Muslim girl and would never do such a thing. I, alas, was not a good Muslim girl.

I mean … we'd just passed our one-year dating anniversary. I figured I was a sort of long-term investment for her. She hoped I would pay dividends eventually; if I died now, she would've put up with all my annoying qualities for nothing.

She would expect explanations from her Main Man, and while I had invented mansplaining and was its foremost practitioner, I had no answers to give her.

reservations

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!

Many people are driven by the need for approval. They allow the expectations of parents or spouses or children or teachers or friends to control their lives. Many adults are still trying to earn the approval of unpleasable parents. Others are driven by peer pressure, always worried by what others might think. Unfortunately, those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

When you base your worth and identity on your relationship to Christ, you are freed from the expectations of others, and that allows you to really serve them best.

Henri Nouwen said, "In order to be of service to others we have to die to them; that is, we have to give up measuring our meaning and value with the yardstick of others…. thus we become free to be compassionate." When you base your worth and identity on your relationship to Christ, you are freed from the expectations of others, and that allows you to really serve them best.

It was a woman's job to try and improve a man. It was a man's job to resist improvement. That was the way the world worked, always had, always would.

That was the trouble, of course. You started off liking someone because of who she was and you ended up wanting her to be different

He never imagined, when his daughter was small and infinitely, eternally lovable, that he would ever develop a combative relationship with her.