Quotes About Expectations

There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.

Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do and what you should be - it's only a silly idea that passes through your mind.

Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

He'd been waiting for a love fraught with passion and drama; it hadn't even occurred to him that true love might be something that was utterly comfortable and just plain easy.

But sometimes the very things you fall in love with people for, become the things you like least about them, in the end.

Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.

At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone's going to love you.

Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations.

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

These things end," she said. "They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It's implied that something else will follow.

When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that.

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.

Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

She didn't love me that much, but she moved in with me. That's a plus. And then one night, I caught her making out with another dude on the driveway. That's a minus.

I'd love to have three or four kids. But my mom always says: "Speak to me after you have your first".

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding.

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

Don't ask for love when you are not capable of giving it.