Quotes About Expectations

With that fear of being punished and that fear of not getting the reward, we start pretending to be what we are not, just to please others, just to be good enough for someone else.

It seems to me we do ourselves a disservice when we over-praise a talent. It feels good to praise and idealize, but then we risk making art inaccessible to those who aspire.

As time passed, it grew easier and easier to let go of what I had. The reason was simple: I had a lot. Like most people who go overseas to do development work, I did so expecting to find out what it's like to be poor. But awakening to my surroundings after a few months, I discovered that that's not what happens. Instead you learn what it's like to be rich, to be fabulously, incomprehensibly bloated with wealth. No one in Kalambayi could afford to share more than I.

How many people, in the beginning of life, think they will finish it as Alexander the Great or Lord Byron, and instead, retain for the whole of their existence, the rank of titulary counsellor?

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a kind of dream but at the same time, without knowing it, are drawing up, like uncompromising lawyers, the detailed clauses of their contract. O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn't expect much from her re-unions.

AÅŸk? ölçmek, s?namak, denemek ve kurtarmak için aÅŸka yönelttiÄŸimiz bütün bu sorular belki de her ÅŸeyin yan?s?ra aÅŸk? k?saltmaya da yar?yor. Belki de sevemememizin nedeni çok sevmek istememiz, yani kar??m?zdaki kiÅŸiden hiçbir istekte bulunmaks?z?n, ondan onunla birlikte olmaktan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey istemeksizin kendimizi ona verecek yerde ondan bir ÅŸey (aÅŸk) talep etmemizdir.

The young can't help playacting; themselves incomplete, they are thrust by life into a completed world where they are compelled to act fully grown. They therefore adopt forms, patterns, models— those that are in fashion, that suit, that please—and enact them.

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake

in his whole life he had never acted as he wished to act. He considered himself the administrator of his own immortality, and that responsibility tied him down and turned him stiff and prim.

Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to demand-free and asking but his company.

Wir alle halten es für undenkbar, dass die Liebe unseres Lebens etwas Leichtes, etwas Gewichtloses sein könnte; wir stellen uns vor, dass unsere Liebe ist, was sie sein muss; dass ohne sie unser Leben nicht unser Leben wäre.

por qué tengo que ser madura para todo, como maduro ser juzgado, expulsado, acusado de trotskista, como persona madura ser enviado a la mina, pero por qué en el amor no puedo ser una persona madura y debo tragar toda la inmadurez?

Las mujeres siempre encuentran muchos más defectos en su propio hombre que en los demás.

Le grand secret de la vie ne lui était pas inconnu : les femmes ne recherchent pas le bel homme, les femmes recherchent l'homme qui a eu de belles femmes.

Ženy nehledají krásné muže. Ženy hledají muže, kteÃ…â"¢í mÄ›li krásné ženy.

Es posible que no seamos capaces de amar precisamente porque deseamos ser amados, porque queremos que el otro nos de algo (amor), en lugar de aproximarnos a él sin exigencias y querer sólo su mera presencia

No es culpa de los jóvenes el que actúen; no están hechos el todo, pero se encuentran en un mundo que ya está hecho y tienen que actuar como hechos.

La mayor desgracia posible es un matrimonio feliz; no le queda a uno la menor esperanza de divorciarse