Quotes About Expectation

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

Don't think about happiness. If it doesn't come, there's no disappointment; if it does come, it's a surprise.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

Be happy in anticipation of what's coming.

Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the very best is yet to come.

There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.