Quotes About Expectations

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

You lost the ability to see beauty in others because your vision got clouded by someone who sold you a fantasy that no one could live up to.

Love is about heartbreak, If you think it's fulfillment, happiness, satisfaction, union, it's even more heartbreak.

Don't settle… The worst thing will be to find the man or woman that truly deserves you after you've married one who doesn't.

No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises.

When we find money in the street, we happily pick it up, even if it's just a buck, but when we bump into love, we tend to be so picky.

Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.

If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

Old-fashioned dating still exists. You're either dating the wrong people or you are the problem.

It was perfect, but perfection is terrifying.

I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending

No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality. For instance, you study every day and learn something in proportion to your studies. If you do not feel that you are going anywhere, your emotions will cause you to become demoralized.

We expect places and products to be less attractive than in marketing brochures, but we never forgive humans for being worse than their first impressions

Two weekends in Philadelphia are not twice as pleasant as a single one—I've tried.

First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme impact (unlike the bird). Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.

social treadmill effect: You get rich, move to rich neighborhoods, then become poor again. To that add the psychological treadmill effect; you get used to wealth and revert to a set point of satisfaction. This problem of some people never really getting to feel satisfied by wealth (beyond a given point) has been the subject of technical discussions on happiness.

The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.

the benefits promised in the book seem grossly overstated.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it. Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that is what you are seeking.

those who live under a self-imposed pressure to be optimal in their enjoyment of things suffer a measure of distress.

Have you ever wondered why so many of these straight-A students end up going nowhere in life while someone who lagged behind is now getting the shekels, buying the diamonds

research on happiness shows that those who live under a self-imposed pressure to be optimal in their enjoyment of things suffer a measure of distress.