Quotes About Expectations

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

Because I was never a 'where do you see yourself in five years' person. I had no idea, and I didn't have a checklist, which really creates a lot less stress in your life.

I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people.

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

Life was what happened when all the what-if's didn't, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.

But I guess everything in life is a bit disappointing, isn't it?

Either the Baby Boomers are not going to have the retirement life that they expect or taxpayers are going to be hit with a tremendously huge bill. Or both.

You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.

Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.

Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can.

You arrange your life based on what "everyone" thinks of you or what you think they think of you, whoever everyone is...

We wind up disappointed with our life and end up depressed because we have wasted it

Your life is made up of your dreams and your realities, your expectations and your possibilities.

Often, the bonds of marriage kill the purpose of the very marriage.