Quotes About Expectation

Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

anticipation and the preparation are all part of the process of creating what you want and bringing it to fruition.

It seemed like all she did these days was wait.

But until we decide what "enough" means, we'll never know whether we've won or not; we'll never be happy.

The best moment for a box of chocolates was before you bit into one. Once you knew it was coconut, the magic was over.

You didn't know what good things were going to happen to you until you were right in the middle of them, so it was best to always be ready.

One is never as happy as one thinks, nor as unhappy as one hopes.

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.

Her future will have been brought to a sad end if it is not incessantly, daily decorated.

The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

I learned a valuable lesson that nothing is ever guaranteed. However, you adjust; you get used to the little things and hope for the best.

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent

One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one's own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us.

Advent creates people, new people.

God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream of this idealized community demand that it be fulfilled by God, by others, and by themselves. They enter the community of Christians with their demands, set up their own law, and judge one another and even God accordingly.

Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other - things that are really of no consequence – the door is shut, and can be opened only from the outside.

it's harder for us to find what we are looking for and must do without, since we have come to expect more from friendship than most other people do. In this respect as well, it's not so easy to make do with "substitutes.

Once again I've taken up the readings and meditated on them. The key to everything is the 'in him'. All that we may rightly expect from God, and ask him for, is to be found in Jesus Christ. The God of Jesus Christ has nothing to do with what God, as we imagine him, could do and ought to do.

Reality had settled in, and they're both still waiting to recover.

Ilude-se com uma gloriosa desforra a longo prazo, acredita possuir ainda uma imensidão de tempo disponível

Twenty-two months had passed without bringing anything fresh and he had stayed there waiting, as if life could not but be specially lenient with him.

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