Quotes About Expectations

Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped.

One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

Our unspoken agreements led to disagreements, to suffering.

La vergüenza es la sensación que nos invade cuando olvidamos casi por completo, pero no del todo, las expectativas sociales y nuestras obligaciones para con los otros, a cambio de nuestra satisfacción inmediata.

I was not going to dance at our wedding and you were not going to speak.

there's going to come a time when we won't speak for days on end." "There won't." "There will. Every parent thinks it will never happen to them, but it happens to everyone.

Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely — yet not entirely — forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.

Persiguiendo la felicidad nos alejamos de la satisfacción

When our motivation to obey becomes an oppressive pressure to do the right thing, to do what's expected of us as Christians, then it breeds serious problems. Obedience that is only seen as rule-keeping ruins the love relationship between us and the Lord. Why? Even though the rules may be biblically based, we will end up obeying them rather than God. Concern with the letter of the law will cause us to lose the spirit of love.

Yo no sabía si era yo quien siempre elegía mal las compañías o si la gente acababa siendo diferente de lo que yo pensaba" - Déjame que te cuente

En nuestra cultura se confunden las cosas. No se acepta que pueda querer mucho a mi pareja y a la vez que pueda disfrutar con otras personas. Partimos siempre de la falsa idea de que la persona adecuada puede y debe darme todo lo que necesito.

lo peor es que a veces conseguimos convencernos, y entonces nuestra vida más fresca, divertida y creativa queda postergada, y la cambiamos por el esfuerzo para llegar a cumplir las «loables metas» que no se sabe muy bien quién eligió para nosotros. Así, las metas se cumplen, pero no nos proporcionan la felicidad que esperábamos. Los logros materiales llegan, pero el aburrimiento aparece igual.

De esta combinación letal sale la falsa conclusión: si tenemos todo para ser felices y no lo somos, lo que no funciona está en otro lado, debe de ser la pareja, sin darnos cuenta de que lo aburrido es la rutinaria vida que llevamos. No es un asunto fácil. Cumplir con logros económicos, avanzar laboralmente o escalar en la posición social da cierta satisfacción, pero ese bienestar es superficial.

La pareja real no puede evitar el sufrimiento. Una se da cuenta y se queda sola "hasta que aparezca" la pareja ideal (que por ser ideal justamente no existe) con lo cual el sufrimiento, lejos de evitarse, reaparece constantemente.

The acts of madmen exceed the previsions of the sane.

Lots of times growing up, I'd just try to do something myself because I believed that being a boy, and being Indian, I should just know how to do things. -Will Bird, Through Black Spruce

The crux of the curious difficulty lies in the fact that our conscious views of what life ought to be seldom correspond to what life really is.

The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.

Being a wife to a man is like being a lid to a jar: if she doesn't fit, he'll simply try another lid.

Life rarely develops as we expect. People surprise us, sometimes in unpleasant ways. They don't always react as we hope they will or want them to.

Most journeys in all of the world start not with bright expectations, a sense of adventure or a bucket and spade, but an empty stomach.

give a New York friend a panic attack, turn up unannounced on a Wednesday and suggest going for a drink. It is easier to organize five guys to raise a flag on Iwo Jima than to get mates out for movie and dinner. Surprise parties are such fun, but require e-mail "save the date" warnings. And everyone needs to know how to dress.

You never can tell with bees.