Quotes About Expectation

Balance. It's like a unicorn; we've heard about it, everyone talks about it and makes airbrushed T-shirts celebrating it, it seems super rad, but we haven't actually seen one. I'm beginning to think it isn't a thing.

No one can wound us more than those supposed to nurture: our parents, our spouses, our churches. The chasm between expectation and reality is particularly grim in supposed safe places.

Trade in your drama about how you can't have what you want for the grateful expectation that miracles will walk into your life, and the more commonplace those miracles will become.

I deserve and expect good things.

Get practiced at making gratitude your go-to, notice the eight trillion things around you at all times that you can be grateful for, and feel into the grateful expectation for all the things coming your way.

There's probably a ton of yellow, but you didn't see it because you were looking for red.

It's like hitting yourself in the head with a rock all day so you can be prepared in case something falls out of the sky and hits you in the head.

Faith is having the audacity to believe in the not-yet seen.

Faith raises your frequency. When you trust that your riches are on the way, instead of biting your nails over the what-ifs and how the hells, you shift your emotional state from doubt and fear to excited expectation. This shift raises your frequency, opens you up, and makes you aware of people and opportunities you weren't seeing before.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

Daniel swept Ainsley into a strong hug. "I knew you'd come back. Didn't I say so? Dad!" he bellowed up the stairs as he set Ainsley on her feet. "It's Ainsley!" "He knows, lad". Mac laughed. "I think the whole county knows.

Never around when you needed them, heroes.

Moistening her lips, she asked, "That's what this is all about? Bringing me here?" His hesitation was so slight she almost missed it. "It could be. Probably is, after all." "You still want to seduce me." "I want whatever you can give me," he murmured against her ear. "Where we go from here may depend on what I can give you.

Hope is never false. One's hopes may not be fulfilled, but that doesn't not mean it was wrong to hope

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Call a girl pretty once, and all she wants, forevermore, is to hear it again.

But you are a different sort of girl. Not at all what I expected you to be. And this is a different sort of time. And so I am hopeful for all the things you may yet find.

Weaver always says freedom is like Sloan's Liniment, always promising more than it delivers.

They wait. For what? They do not know. But they can feel it coming. Splashed by carriage wheels, they feel it. Outside cafes, looking in, they feel it. At night, in their narrow beds, they feel it. Counting the days snubs and mocks, they feel it. And it fires them.

I had wanted something from him. Even expected a confrontation. To be ignored was a sentence without a period.

You owe me and you know what I want in return." He scowled at me. "Not the pants." I nodded gravely. "Give me your pants.

He fumbled with something in his breeches. She had thought the past few minutes the most intense of her life, but they were nothing compared with the alarm and ashamed delight now rushing through her veins - until she realized he was only bringing out his pocket watch.

John turned to me. "Frozen daiquiri?" "Pina colada, please." "Virgin?" He wasn't asking my permission. He was just making sure I knew he wasn't going to try to swipe me any alcohol. "That's optimistic," I said.

And then my mom called, "Have fun on your date, Hayden!" Another step down and I thought, Good.Mom is mistaken and has led Nick to believe I'm going on a date. One more step down and I thought, Oh no,Mom has led Nick believe I'm going on a date!"