Quotes About Expectation

Everyday was another day spent waiting.  Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would  recognize her true worth.

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

Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act

You can't say to the spring: Come now and last as long as possible. You can only say: Come and bless me with your hope, and stay as long as you can.

There were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. [...] People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same

It is bound to come a moment when what seems close is still very far away.

And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them.

Quien ama esperando una recompensa está perdiendo el tiempo.

it is one thing to get used to something, another to be satisfied.

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.

We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time. Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.

Esperar. Ésa fue la primera lección que aprendí sobre el amor. El día se arrastra, haces miles de planes, imaginas todas las conversaciones posibles, prometes cambiar tu comportamiento… y te vas poniendo ansiosa y ansiosa, hasta que llega tu amado. Entonces ya no sabes qué decir. Esas horas de espera se han transformado en tensión, la tensión en miedo, y el miedo hace que nos dé vergüenza mostrar nuestro afecto.

Each would always be fascinated by the other–so long as each remained exactly what the other imagined.

sometimes we win and sometimes we lose , don't expect anything to get back

We assume (falsely) that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future.

Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it

Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the things we are waiting as quickly as possible.

Well, maybe I just want to know the future so I can prepare myself for what's coming. 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.

each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. ...whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves a feeling disappointed, saying: The book is so much better than the film.

But I'm afraid that it would be all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream about it.

The second concerns the dangerous event of change, whether it's our house, job, or behavior. Here, everything is stable, everyone behaves as expected. Please don't try to be different or suddenly reinvent yourself, because you'll be threatening our whole society. This country worked hard to reach its "finished" state; we don't want to go back to being "under renovation.

We see the world in terms of what we would like to see happen, not what actually does.

Quand nous nous engageons dans le chemin, nous avons toujours une idee plus ou moins definie de ce que nous voulons trouver. Les femmes en general recherchent l'Autre Partie, les hommes le Pouvoir. Ni les uns ni les autres ne desirent apprendre: ils veulent arriver au but qu'ils se sont fixes.

I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.