Quotes About Expectations

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.

Although she had chosen presents with such care for her relations, Laura was surprised when counter presents arrived from them. She had not thought of them as remembering her. (77)

Our personal inner songs are telepathic expressions of energy that send out signals about our beliefs and expectations of reality.

Don't be hostage to your expectations, she would teach. Sometimes trauma doesn't look the way you think it should.

Her whole life, Crystal's mother had given her nothing but ultimatums. Conditional love. Love with strings.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

Just because people love your gift doesn't mean they love you. Most of them will never really know you. Most of them don't care about you. They just want your gift. And it's okay to share your gift. It's a good thing to serve your gift to people or in places that may benefit from it.

Unfortunately, many of us often spend our lives doing what we were trained to do. Some do what they were asked to do. And most of us do what others need us to do. And all the while, we wonder why the feeling of fulfillment eludes us.

Often after years of deep investment into others we are shocked and disappointed that they simply didn't get who we really are.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

If shopping doesn't make you happy, then you're in the wrong shop.

Whatever happens, whether you succeed or you fail, people with high expectations always feel better, because how we feel — when we get dumped or we win employee of the month — depends on how we interpret that event.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

We live in a world that worships limitations

Expectations of anyone or of any thing will lead u down the road of disappointment. Set your Intention today to let go and ALLOW others to follow their path as u follow yours. Look deeply within yourself, what is your FEAR? What r u so afraid of? Contentment is a SOUL/SOLE journey that u must travel alone, expecting another to fill YOUR void is unfair and selfish.

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

Fling. That's how he saw their night together. She'd been thinking of box-sets with a blanket over their laps and mini-breaks to Rome or Berlin and making love in front of an open fire or on a deserted beach with the sun reflecting gold in those amber flecks in his eyes . . . and he'd been thinking 'fling'.

Back then, I was looking for the big love story, the charismatic stranger. I didn't learn until it was way too late, until long after my failed marriage to Johnny, that love doesn't ride into town and sweep you off your feet, but sometimes looks at you in a certain way and you realize it was there all the time, right under your nose.

Thinking this is "The One" becomes an excuse to let your own life deteriorate.

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different