Quotes About Expectations

Ne budi glup. Znaš dobro što ti govorim. Život su ljudi, zaboravi teorije. Kad o?ekujemo da drugi budu ovakvi ili onakvi, nemogu?e je voljeti, jer nema prihva?anja, nema jasne vizije, nema svjetlosti. Ako želiš prodrijeti u Arohinu ?istu dušu, voli ono što jest. Sve ostalo tvoj je vlastiti balast.«

Mientras estés buscando, tu mirada se ancla en los límites de tus expectativas. Por eso, mientras busques, no encontrarás nada realmente importante. Para encontrar debes dejarte llevar. Mientras vayas con ideas preconcebidas, serás incapaz de ver lo que pasa ante tus narices.

Ne znam kako to objasniti... Aroha je prelijepa i nježna kao an?eo, ali ne doima se ni po ?emu osobom kakvu sam mislio da poznajem.« »Onda je tvoja greška bila pomisliti da nekoga poznaješ prije no što si ga upoznao.« »Kako?« »Došao si do Arohe natrpan vlastitim filtrima, o?ekivanjima i prethodno razra?enim idejama. Tako je nemogu?e voljeti.«

prihvati život takav kakav jest, nemoj željeti da on bude nešto drugo. I ne o?ekuj velike doga?aje. Pomisli kako je svakodnevna egzistencija tvoja prava škola; ostalo su izvanškolske aktivnosti.

Sabes por qué prácticamente todas las relaciones terminan mal? Yo te lo diré: porque en seguida creemos que el otro es posesión nuestra.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

They say, 'Oh, I went up to Scotland once and it was raining.' Of course it was fucking raining! Where do you think Scotland is – the fucking Pyrenees? Take a raincoat, you stupid fucker!

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place

Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.

Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.

Success stories may be great motivational material for sales seminars, but we are not always successful.

I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.

Within the New Testament, there is no indication that Christians should expect to be healthy, wealthy, and successful in this present age.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

In this way my mother fell short as a parent, which was something I had to learn to accept because it's how she was, and either you accept people as they are or you turn your back on them and walk away. Those are the choices: forbearance or flight, although that philosophy was slow in coming to me, and for many years, I expected more from people than they could give.

Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.

What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot...

Vevers remarked on what struck them as Yates's peculiar attitude toward women: 'He expected them to drink a lot and be beautiful all the time.

That winter he was invited to give a reading at the University of Massachusetts (Boston), but not a single person showed up. He sat in the silent lecture hall while his two sponsors gazed at their watches; finally Yates suggested they adjourn to a bar. He didn't seem particularly surprised.

But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man: the ability to function with the worst possible secrets in your brain. Which was why so many grown-up men seemed so ridiculous. They never felt that responsibility. They were untested, unproven; they were boys in grown-up clothes.

Boys shouldn't know what power they have. They would panic probably, or just mess things up. But boys are who you give yourself to. Not your parents, or your teachers, or your "future." You give yourself to a boy. And then you go for long walks at night and think about them and wonder what they will do to you in the end.

What is it men in women to require? The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require? The lineaments of gratified desire.

When a Man has Married a Wife He finds out whether Her Knees & elbows are only glued together.