Quotes About Expectation

Bu alemin tezahürlerini d??ar? vermediklerine bak?p onlar?n manen ya?amad?klar?na hükmedecek yerde, en basit bir be?er tecessüsü ile, bu meçhul alemi merak etsek, belki hiç ummad???m?z ?eyler görmemiz, beklemedi?imiz zenginliklerle kar??la?mam?z mümkün olur. Fakat insanlar nedense daha ziyade ne bulacaklar?n? tahmin ettikleri ?eyleri ara?t?rmay? tercih ediyorlar.

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

Resentment, anger, jealousy, pain, hurt, and depression are poisons that you drink but expect someone else to die. Life does not work that way. Most people take lifetimes to understand this simple truth.

Once you are released from the fruit of action, the action will happen by itself. You don't have to stop working to be released from action. Simply, it will dissolve, melt and disappear. Once the expectation of the fruit of action is completely removed from your life, the action occurs by itself. You don't have to do anything about it.

The faster you achieve your success, the faster you realize this. When you are in a certain state of insufficiency, you keep thinking that everything will be okay once your dreams are realized. But if all the things you dreamt of happen very quickly, you suddenly realize that, although everything is happening as you thought it should, life still remains unfulfilled and your longings persist.

I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently. I expected then as I still expect today

That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant--the act of a tyrant.

What else did you expect from helping someone out? Isn't it enough that you've done what your nature demands? You want a salary for it too? As if your eyes expected a reward for seeing, or your feet for walking. That's what they were made for.

Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age.

You've given aid and they've received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Deed, to be repaid in kind. Why?

that to expect bad men not to do wrong is madness

How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.

You can live here as you expect to live there.

Should not thou rather blame thyself, who, when upon very good grounds of reason, thou mightst have thought it very probable, that such a thing would by such a one be committed, didst not only not foresee it, but moreover dost wonder at it, that such a thing should be.

As they that long after figs in winter when they cannot be had; so are they that long after children, before they be granted them.

if thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

Remember that as it is a shame to be surprised if the fig-tree produces figs, so it is to be surprised if the world produces such and such things of which it is productive

XXIX. As they that long after figs in winter when they cannot be had; so are they that long after children, before they be granted them. XXX.

15. Remember: you shouldn't be surprised that a fig tree produces figs, nor the world what it produces. A good doctor isn't surprised when his patients have fevers, or a helmsman when the wind blows against him.

that to expect a bad person not to harm others is like expecting fig trees not to secrete juice, babies not to cry, horses not to neigh—the inevitable not to happen. What else could they do—with that sort of character?

that to expect a bad person not to harm others is like expecting fig trees not to secrete juice, babies not to cry, horses not to neigh—the inevitable not to happen. What else could they do—with that sort of character? If you're still angry, then get to work on that. 17.

Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.