Quotes About Expectation

One thinks one is going to the tropics and one finds oneself in the Chinese version of Welwyn Garden City.

Nothing is stranger than being in a fairly bad place and being told that another place-your destination-is a great deal worse.

Each surrender was for her the pledge that another surrender would be demanded of her, and she acquitted herself of each as though of a duty performed; it was odd that she should have been completely satisfied by it, and yet she was. Sir

Quién se apiada del que espera? Se le reconoce fácilmente: por su mansedumbre, por su mirada atenta, pero, con una atención falsa, atentos a otra cosa que lo que están mirando: a la ausencia.

Aquel al que se espera, porque se le espera, ya está presente, ya se muestra dueño y señor.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

I am surprised how difficult for people is to say I love you. They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear I love you too back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave

When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive- I'll find love again.

In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.

Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.

now that she realized she had been waiting for him—she did not like that.

With every farewell comes a hidden hope.

I'm like everyone else - I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

You can't spend the whole day waiting for night to come.