Quotes About Expectations

You watch," said Colton. "They most certainly will. Someone will mention it at my funeral. They'll say, 'We never should have made the poor boy do so much school. What a freakin' waste of his time it was.

Everyone knew that once a woman was 30, she might as well be dead.

We live in the Age of Comparison. Too often, we deem our own achievements worthless if they fall short of others' standards. Our best isn't good enough if it's not as good as someone else's best.

Sometimes Eli believed his mother was embarrassed by him. I swear, my mom thinks if I do one thing differently than the average person, I'm weird, Eli said later. It's like she thinks I'm a freak or something. No matter what I do, it's not 'normal' enough for her.

My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother's alarmingly narrow ideal, but also for the middle daughter who knew that her in mother's mind she had already failed.

You need to add a new voice inside your head, one that says, "So what?" What if you don't get married by 30? So what? What if you haven't paid off your loans or debt by 35? So what? What if you're not a stand-out success by 28? So what? If you were to achieve everything you wanted in life by the age of 30, then what would you do for the next fifty years? You have time. You don't have to get to everything right now.

Rather than addressing the nurses being spread too thin to provide care that is good enough, they assume the nurses aren't coddling the patients adequately enough." What annoys nurses is that the concept of "patient experience" has morphed patients into customers and nurses into "rank and file" automatons. Some hospital job postings advertise that they are looking for nurses with "good customer service skills" as their

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!

Pooh! Women say those things, but never do them.

It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.

Live simply", she said. "Don't expect so much out of life. You can only be disappointed when your expectations are not met so strive for the best but keep your expectations simple." I

Remember There's No Such Thing As An Unrealistic Goal – Just Unrealistic Time Frames

Mothers have to pretend to be perfect[.] If we didn't, anarchy would rule the world. But most of the time we're just doing the best we can and trying to get better at it everyday

Would your family support you if you decided you didn't want to be a cattle baron and run the family dynasty?" "Cattle baron, am I now?

Variety is overrated, honey. Regardless of what your country club friends say, most women just want to find a decent guy who can inspire lust now and again.

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Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, Perhaps this is the man.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

They say you only have so many breaths in your lifetime, and I think disappointments might be the same.

What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?

Something in me had changed when Archie asked me if I wanted Sharon's cats. I thought then that if I didn't start saying what it was that I wanted, I shouldn't expect to get it. Archie got so off base about me because I let him be so off base about me. I was never clear.

Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After.