Quotes About Expectation

Keep your thinking in the present—don't count your chickens before they hatch, and you won't be so disappointed with a broken egg once in a while.

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

The best thing about search is you always find what you want. The worst thing about search is you never find what you do not want.

I keep thinking they're gonna call me. I keep thinking they're gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money with this! And they don't.

They come. Sooner than I'd thought, more than I'd even begun to fear. They come looking for death. And Death is psyched to see 'em.

Why you can't trust women. Even young girls. Can't know what the fuck they are thinking, can't know what they are feeling, can't know how they will surprise you except to know it won't be a surprise you will like.

Dorie herself was not very surprised, because a daydreamer is prepared for most things and in a way she had planned even this, though she had not guessed how it would come about.

Since thirteen, she'd been preparing. She wasn't beautiful like these Bayhead Harbor girls, but it was surprising how men sometimes looked at her. More it was older men rather than guys her age, for some reason. […] There were guys - older guys - she'd yearned for so frankly you could see it in her face.

She would become, through the years, a woman who expected the worst, to relieve herself of the anxiety of hope. She would become a woman of calm, fatalistic principles, anticipating her life with the equanimity of a weather forecaster.

the terrible intimacy of pregnancy

En una familia, lo que no se dice es lo que se espera oír. Pero el ruido que hace una familia es para que no se oiga.

I always say believe for a bunch, and even if you only get half of it you are better off than believing for a little and getting all of it.

Power Thought: I expect good things to happen in my life today.

We make Him too small in our eyes and expect much less than He desires to give.

It shall be done for you as you have believed. MATTHEW 8:13

God wants you to trust Him and have a happy expectation for something good. If you're in a tough situation today, expect it to change. If you're in a good situation today, expect it to get even better. God is a God of hope.

I'd rather believe for a whole lot and get half of it than believe for a little bit and get all of it.

Choose, instead, to believe God is going to do something even better in your life.

We have free access to God. We can go before Him anytime we want to. We don't need a special invitation. The throne room is always open, God is always home, He is never napping or on the phone. We can go boldly, expecting Him to meet our need and do it willingly and joyfully.

What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living! Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord. PSALM 27:13–14

take responsibility for your joy and never again give anyone else the job of keeping you happy. Add a little variety to your life—break up your routine, do something different, and so on. When you do, expect God to meet you and help make your ordinary… extraordinary!

And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]! Isaiah 30:18

live. If you don't expect God to do anything great in your life, He won't.

I wake up expecting to enjoy my day.