Quotes About Expectations

But if popular impressions are a guide, today's Americans are not one and a half times happier (as they would be if happiness tracked income), or a third happier (if it tracked education), or even an eighth happier (if it tracked longevity).

and Twitter hashtag #firstworldproblems and in a monologue by the comedian Louis C.K. known as "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy":

We have come a long way to arrive at an age in which one-pound preemies are rescued with heroic surgery, children are not expected to be economically productive until their fourth decade, and violence against children has been defined down to dodgeball.

We wanted flying cars; instead we got 140 characters.

Culture is an autonomous entity that carries out a desire to perpetuate itself by setting up expectations and assigning roles, which can vary arbitrarily from society to society.

There's a huge difference between being in love and being in love with the thought of love. Recognize the difference. Never settle.

It doesn't matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.

All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.

Nobody will ever love you quite the way you want them to. You just have to let them do their best.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

You should never, ever, let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You have a choice whether to meet others expectations of you, or strive to meet your own.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.

In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.

Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two.

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.

We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed

I don't have a boyfriend right now. I'm looking for anyone with a job that I don't have to support.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.