Quotes About Expectation

If we allow an encounter with a given thing to be shaped by this expectation that it may last, every such experience will be spoiled and falsified, and ultimately it will be prevented from unfolding its most proper and authentic potential and fertility.

The myths about the dragons who at the last moment turn into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses, only waiting for the day when they will see us handsome and brave?

We often decide in advance how we will respond to something rather than wait for the experience to play itself out according to its proper speed.

I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.

Boo'ful, she said, life could be so diff'rent— But it never is, I said.

she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off into some unknown which I dared not face. It was a most painful position for at the same time Mary reminded me constantly that something was expected of me, some act of leadership, some newsworthy achievement;...

Still it was nothing new, white folks seemed always to expect you to know those things which they'd done everything they could think of to prevent you from knowing.

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born; every thing impossible until we see a success.

A man said to Maharajji, "You've promised for years to visit my home and you have never come. I'm not going to come to see you anymore, because you won't visit my home." Maharajji said, "Oh, I didn't understand! It's your home. I had thought it was my home and so I didn't need to visit.

The journey of consciousness is about arriving at a balance in life where you are open to the mystery of it all. You can't be open when you're loaded down with a lot of conceptual stuff. In my own consciousness, I watch how long it takes, when an expectation isn't fulfilled, before I come back again to being in the present moment. How long before I can let go of not getting what I wanted, and just be with what is?

Whether or not the tithe is still the minimal measure of those firstfruits, I ask myself, Does God expect His New Covenant children to give less or more? Jesus raised the spiritual bar; He never lowered it (Matthew 5:27–28).

Anyone who waits for happiness will never be happy.

If I promised you a new car, would you say, "If it's new, it probably won't have an engine, a transmission, doors, wheels, or windows"? No, you'd never make such assumptions. Why? Because if a new car didn't have these things, it wouldn't be a car. Likewise, when Scripture speaks of a new Earth (2 Peter 3, and Revelation 21), we can expect that it will be a far better version of the old Earth, but it will truly be Earth.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

But earth is not heaven." "And those who expect it to be," Dani said, "can never know Joy.

He almost turned back to make the walk again, to give her time to appear. He was certain if he tried the same route, everything would work out fine.

Perhaps I expected to look in and find a giant canary, stretched out on a carpet of dust, songless, capable of only heart murmurs for talk.

You really expect answers to your calling when you are young. You feel that whatever you may think can be real. And some times maybe that is not so wrong.

On page 86, This wasn't like Jim. Always before, the window slid up, Jim's head popped out, ripe with yells, secret hissings, giggles, riots and rebel charges. This quote shows that something isn't right, that this isn't what Will was expecting of Jim. This quote can foreshadow of what could happen later in the book.

Nadie tiene tiempo para nadie. Usted es uno de los pocos que me han hecho caso. Por eso me parece tan raro que sea un bombero. Es algo que de algún modo no parece hecho para usted.