Quotes About Expectations

If we are unhappy without a relationship, we'll probably be unhappy with one as well. A relationship doesn't begin our life; a relationship doesn't become our life. A relationship is a continuation of life.

Codependents make great employees. They don't complain; they do more than their share; they do whatever is asked of them; they please people; and they try to do their work perfectly—at least for a while, until they become angry and resentful. Maria

Nobody has ever loved us in a way that met our needs.

We are no different today, friends. We get caught up in the season, busily making preparations for Christmas. We decorate, bake cookies, shop, and wrap presents, and yet we aren't truly ready. We aren't waiting with great expectations. Our hearts aren't prepared to receive this holy guest, this heavenly visitor.

Your kids ever act like that? Tim laughed. Come on, man, I'm a pastor. My kids were perfect.

When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.

Why do we grow up thinking life should be fair? Who told us that it should be? Because it never is, and finding that out . . . hurts worse than a lie.

Clarice concentrated on taking deep breaths. Men did not burst into tears, no matter how terrible the tragedy.

As a result of these high expectations surrounding a greatly valued ideal, health has become a salient metaphor for salvation, even for nonreligious Westerners.

He thinks marriage will make our love more real when marriage will only make our love more necessary. Marriage (Often) is just a publicity stunt a social security, Yes, I will stay with you BUT you don't have to marry me Marriage is not a payment or something you can 'give' me It is not something that you can do 'for' me only 'with me

So, before we go too much further, now is a good chance to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, we are all a little guilty of sometimes living someone else's aspirations for us instead of our own. And this is a great time to say 'No more!' to living out of fear and other people's expectations.

We live in a world where everything tends to get oversold, then all too often under-delivers. I'd prefer to be known for the opposite.

I wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn't hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently do it to me? Even my parents treat me like I'm stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.

I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.

I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.

How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter?

To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.

Dear Bea— I've been wading through a pile of Due before 3 mimeos—but now at last I know what to do with them: into the wastebasket! I'm also hep to the jargon. I know that illustrative material means magazine covers, enriched curriculum means teaching who and whom, and that All evaluation of students should be predicated upon initial goals and grade level expectations means if a kid shows up, pass him. Right?

Many women cannot hear male pain about love because it sounds like an indictment of female failure.

Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else's image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself. School

No male successfully measures up to patriarchal standards without engaging in an ongoing practice of self-betrayal.

We cannot teach boys that real men either do not feel or do not express feelings, then expect boys to feel comfortable getting in touch with their feelings.

At times women find it difficult to hear what men have to say when what they tell us does not conform to our fantasies of who they are or who we want them to be.

While emotional needs are difficult, and often are impossible to satisfy, material desires are easier to fulfill.