Quotes About Expectation

We're always looking for the full open leaf, the open warmth, the promise that we'll one day soon surely be able to lie back and have summer done to us; one day soon we'll be treated well by the world.

She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.

Los amigos de toda la vida, dijo él. A veces nos pasamos toda la vida esperándolos.

most people interpret silence as rejection!

Sound like a promise that can never happen.

What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Je reste optimiste tout en me préparant au pire, maman, ça te semble bien comme compromis ?

I just want to say it: I knew what was coming.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment With caress unmoved and cold Make of it a parka For your soul. Discover the reason why So tiny human midget Exists at all So scared unwise But expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise.

Perfection is only a standard set by the human mind as to what it desires.

I have all faith in you. I will look to your coming when spring walks in the land.

He was coming home.

check-cashing place that wasn't open today. No leaf peepers

When things have gone wrong it is no consolation to hear that your friends expected it all along and could have told you so if they hadn't been so polite.

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

You are most powerful when you are most silent. Poeple never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They except to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words leaping forth from their mouths. Silence? No.

Women, I thought: if they fell over a cliff and thought there was company waiting at the bottom, they'd comb their hair on the way down.

He viewed her as a farmer views a prize cow: she was someone who would give him what he wanted – namely, a large family – and he demanded she respect his need for utter subservience in the relationship

Aquele que mais desejais será, talvez, precisamnete o que não obtereis

They know what to expect from us. They know that eventually we will "help" them yet again. The bitter truth for many of us is that we haven't been helping; we've been enabling. So instead of praying to God to stop the pain, remove the difficulty, or change the lives of our adult children, we must rise up and pray for something entirely different. We must pray for the courage to look deep in our own hearts and souls. We must pray for the strength to

Sometimes—many times—both in life and in marriage, you hope for the sunset overlooking the ocean off a deserted beach in the Mayan Riviera, but what you get is a drive to physical therapy. That's okay. Maybe it's actually how it should be.