Quotes About Expectation

I don't actually understand the meaning of generosity. It means giving to people and expecting nothing in return. It doesn't mean giving to someone with the expectation, or even hope, that they will regale you with praise for being such a generous person. I realized that I'm fine with giving, but I'm bad at generosity.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

Tot està dit, però jo encara espero aquell tren que ha de dur-me no sé on, potser enlloc, i confio de trobar-hi algun amable viatger que escolti pacientment les meves confidències.

Doubt lurks in the bushes, waiting for you to come back from your honeymoon.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.

Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy.

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

A man asked for an early meal. His wife said: "It is for supper.

Don't brood on what has not yet come, nor rejoice at what has not yet happened. The patient man prolongs friendship; he who destroys a case will not be trusted.

Man sollte nie auf Wunder hoffen, es sei denn, man kann sich darauf verlassen, dass sie wirklich eintreffen.

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

At two o'clock in the afternoon it was time to go. As the passengers lined up outside the Gremlin Special, Prossen told them to expect the tour to last three hours.

reaction whenever Jack arrived in

It isn't that I didn't question why I spent all my days waiting

You think when you get to go where you want to go, finally you be happy, but then when you get to where you want to go, you are actually even more miserable because you have nothing left to aspire to, and you feel this hopelessness, like what's left to aspire towards?

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

La emoción dominante es la de un optimismo abrumador. El país espera todo de él aunque la economía no traiga buenas noticias;

ARNOLPHE. WAS SHE sad after I went away? Georgette. Sad? No. Arnolphe. No? Georgette. Yes, yes. Arnolphe. Why, then? Georgette. May I die on the spot, but she expected to see you return every minute; and we never heard a horse, an ass, or a mule pass by without her thinking it was you.

Especially when she thought it was chicken.

I'm not talking about whether or not you'll send me a card next February." She shook her head. "I can't be with a withholder. I won't live with little denials." The way she said that, it sounded like he'd proposed.

Those who are waiting are waiting very actively. They know that what they are waiting for is growing from the ground on which they are standing. . . . That's the secret. The secret of waiting is the faith that the seed has been planted, that something has begun. Active waiting means to be present fully to the moment in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it. . . . Waiting, then, is not passive.

Kadang keadaan ternyata tidak seburuk yang disangka. Kadang-kadang hal buruk yang disangka akan datang malah tidak datang sama sekali. Kalian hanya harus menunggu dan melihat keadaan.

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.