Quotes About Expectations

Zixi made no reply, but she agreed with the alligator, who called after her sleepily, Isn't it fortunate we cannot have everything we are stupid enough to wish for?

How can I help being a humbug. . .when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?

when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite--always.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was.

You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

Sometimes a relationship is what falls cause it's not fair that, that person has to fit inside your life or you have to fit inside that person's life.

When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness.

Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don't realize is perfection is terrifying.

Never place someone so high on a pedestal that if they should fall... you get crushed.

I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for them. You shouldn't have to constantly be trying to prove your love when you're in a relationship.

When you're in a relationship with a very famous person, you have to make compromises.

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.