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Quotes About Expectation

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]
~ Henry David Thoreau
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
~ Henry Miller
Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome
~ Hilary Thayer Hamann
I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.
~ Howard Schultz
If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.
~ Joe Vitale
Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat.
~ John Ashbery
Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.
~ Winston Churchill
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
~ Theodor Adorno
The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where what seemed to be close to you is in fact still very far away.
~ Paulo Coelho
My life is going to change. I feel it.
~ Raymond Carver
I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.
~ Chrisette Michele
Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want.
~ Danielle LaPorte
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
~ Lynn Redgrave
Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.
~ Emma Watson
I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.
~ Om Puri
Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
~ Swami Vivekananda
For me, life has been interesting and entertaining, and I'm interested and curious about what's going to happen each day.
~ Gary Kraftsow
There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
~ Graham T. Allison
Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
~ Haruki Murakami
Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.
~ Irving Kristol
Life is just a Box of Chocolates.
~ James Lipton
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.
~ John Ashbery
Waiting is one of life's hardships.
~ Daniel Handler
All human life can be found in an airport.
~ David Walliams