Quotes About Expectation

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.

You may as well expect pears from an elm.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

While happiness itself is sought for its own sake, every other goal - health, beauty, money or power - is valued only because we expect that it will make us happy.

If one does not expect perfect safety, recognizes that risks are inevitable, and succeeds in enjoying a less than ideally predictable world, the threat of insecurity will not have as great a chance of marring happiness.

If a person is unwilling to adjust personal goals when starting a relationship, then a lot of what subsequently happens in that relationship will produce disorder in the person's consciousness, because novel patterns of interaction will conflict with old patterns of expectation.

What matters is not what he has now, but what he might obtain if he does as others want him to do. Caught in the treadmill of social controls, that person keeps reaching for a prize that always dissolves in his hands.

Enjoyable events occur when a person has not only met some prior expectation or satisfied a need or a desire but also gone beyond what he or she has been programmed to do and achieved something unexpected, perhaps something even unimagined before.

Doubtless you would prefer a gayer woman than myself. But I would be gay—I would do all you wish so as not to disappoint you, and I would give you as much pleasure as I could.

Doubtless you would prefer a gayer woman than myself. But I would be gay—

With expectation, we're waiting for something specific that we want to happen, and we'll be disappointed if it doesn't. With expectancy, we release our own agenda in a person's life, allowing changes to happen that we can't control.

Cuando Dios se dispone a hacer algo nuevo con su pueblo, siempre lo pone a orar".2 El Espíritu Santo establecerá una cultura de oración en todo el Cuerpo de Cristo antes de que Jesús regrese.

Scripture really seems to be getting at something here, something about orienting our lives around becoming lifelong learners of Jesus. It is liberating to think that, with God's Spirit, over time, we can learn the ways of Jesus, doing the things that he did while becoming the same type of person. It doesn't happen overnight, and the expectation of Scripture isn't that it happens overnight

It is liberating to think that, with God's Spirit, over time, we can learn the ways of Jesus, doing the things that he did while becoming the same type of person. It doesn't happen overnight, and the expectation of Scripture isn't that it happens overnight.

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.

Most of the time you don't know how close a dream is to coming true, until after it has.

If something wonderful happens, chances are astronomically high that it will happen again.

May all that you wish for be the least you receive.

The process of opening your mind, while expecting answers, coupled with taking action, knocking on doors and turning over stones, makes you a lightning rod for breakthroughs.

It's funny how life can be sometimes, just when you think you know how everything is, it sneaks out a surprise that really tears the rug right out from beneath your feet.

What makes life worth living is all the wonderful things that could happen to you.

You know, when you wait for something you really want, it makes it even more special when you finally get it.

Instead of opening ourselves to the virtually unlimited potential and flexibility of which human beings are capable, we concentrate our energies on trying to live up to an ideal.