Quotes About Expectation

it would be a long, long time before I heard anything from Boris again.

It seemed my whole life was composed of these disjointed fractions of time, hanging around in one public place and then another, as if I were waiting for trains that never came.

No—wait. I'm coming back.

The fig tree without fruit is symbolic, in my opinion, of the nation Israel. The owner of the fig tree expected it to bear fruit and was disappointed when it was barren. He had the unquestioned right to take the fruit and to act in judgment by cutting down the tree. Israel had been promised blessings if they walked in the light God had given them and curses if they rejected the light.

Never judge a book by its movie.

I'm guessing GoLYTELY isn't a taste sensation." "They claim it's chocolate-flavored. More like chalk-flavored. I'd rather drink a gallon of paint.

The financial and social stability of every industrialized country seems to be founded on the expectation of an ever-expanding market for mass production,

let us not expect too much from our own hearts here below. At our best we shall find in ourselves daily cause for humiliation, and discover that we are needy debtors to mercy and grace every hour.

Well, we live by hope.

Who knows if, upon reaching the age of twenty, I may find something there that will change my life? The night is promising and life is an unexpected guest.

Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what's out of your control.

Es posible que las cosas lleguen a darse para quienes esperan, pero sólo serán aquellas cosas que hayan dejado quienes las ponen por obra. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Live with high intention and low attachment

Failure Is Not Predictive

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

It was an ordinary day, a Friday, twenty minutes til lunchtime, five hours til quitting time and the weekend, ten months til vacation, thirty-seven years til retirement. Then the phone rang.

Your baby comes into the world with a biological program expecting to see conditions similar to that past.

Let's hope that when you're coming down I'll be looking up.

If there's one thing I've learned in my short and unhappy life it's never to expect anything and to be particularly suspicious of that which is apparently served up on a plate.

If you expect your life to be up and down, your mind will be much more peaceful.

When the conditions of deficiency and wounding are still not healed, we have a very hard time knowing what it feels like to give in a genuine way. Because our inner experience is still one of need, giving is usually done with a subtle expectation of getting in return.

If you hold on to any expectation, you miss the wisdom. It is impermanent. Be the One Who Knows, the witness to it all. This is how trust grows." And it is how love grows as well. Trust and love are the keys.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.