Quotes About Expectation

Chi ama aspettandosi qualcosa in cambio perde il suo tempo.

Mnogi ljudi gube male radosti nadaju?i se za veliku sre?u. -

em," she said softly. "That guy with the sexy voice told 'em to get ready

Hope must come out of what we have, or it is not hope, but a dream.

Mi señor, ¿has visto el amanecer esta mañana? Se hubiera dicho que la tierra saltaba al encuentro del sol. Al principio, todo era oscuridad; luego surgió la luz como una nota musical. Mi señor, yo soy tu pobre tierra, que espera.

Siempre fue así, suspiró rendida, pan para hoy y hambre para mañana, tan pronto creía tener algo y la vida se lo quitaba de un arañazo.

I'd believed I could keep out the tales and the toys but had failed on both counts.

It is one thing, I was discovering, to think, Maybe I won't have kids, and quite another to be told, Maybe you can't. This is how impatience turns to desperation.

Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.

You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace; you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just "gimme a break!" But the more you think that way, the more you try to get life to come out so that it will always suit you, the more your fear of other people and what's outside your room grows.

As long as we believe that there is something that will permanently satisfy our hunger for security, suffering is inevitable.

Not getting what you want. Getting what you do not want. This is the root of all suffering. ~ Pema Chodron

Suzuki Roshi gave the instructions, 'sit still. Don't anticipate...

Obsessing about getting what you want and avoiding what you don't want does not result in happiness.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.

Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.