Quotes About Expectation

Tako obi?no biva. Oni koje želimo da vidimo ne dolaze u ?asovima kad na njih mislimo i kad ih najviše o?ekujemo, a pojavljuju se u nekom trenutku kad smo mislima najdalje od njih. I našoj radosti zbog ponovnog vi?enja tada treba malo vremena da se digne s dna, gde je potisnuta, i pojavi na površini.

Prevariti se u jednoj velikoj nadi nije sramota. Sama cinjenica da je takva nada mogla da postoji vredi toliko da nije suvise skupo placena jednim razocarenjem, ma kako tesko ono bilo.

The history of the kings is the story of how those who had been anointed failed to live up to that anointing. It is this fact alone that can explain the rise of messianism: belief in the anointed one who will fulfil his anointing.' 14

Gegenwärtiges und Zukünftiges, Erfahrung und Hoffnung treten in der christlichen Eschatologie in Widerspruch zueinander, so daß durch sie dem Menschen nicht Entsprechung und Einstimmigkeit mit dem Gegebenen zuteil wird, sondern er in den Widerstreit von Hoffnung und Erfahrung hineingezogen wird.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

We plan, we toil, we suffer — in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

Kamers horen absolute zekerheden te zijn. De manier waarop zij in elkaar overlopen hoort eens en voor altijd vast te liggen. Een deur moet geopend kunnen worden. Niet in angst en onzekerheid omdat je geen idee hebt wat je erachter zult vinden.

Sometimes it's a struggle to get over self-love first. Sometimes in this struggle for love, we give up, or lose everything, and we still don't achieve love. Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

Mindful awareness – or mindfulness – spontaneously arises out of this Being mode when we learn to pay attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment, to things as they actually are. In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become.

In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become

A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.

February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

Look, ten or two hundred and

Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can't do it. You can't expect them to love you.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

It was like sitting in a silent room waiting for someone very important someone for whom you have been waiting a long while and then suddenly hearing a knock on the door. For just a minute you hesitate wondering who it might be and what does he want and why did he come. For just a second you're scared because although you've waited for years you really never expected the knock.

From now on I will live in a state of joyous expectation.

Good things are always coming; sometimes we just forget it.