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Quotes About Expectation

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
~ Aldous Huxley
The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.
~ Dov Davidoff
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
~ Jean Racine
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
~ Charlton Ogburn
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
~ Marcel Proust
Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.
~ Rod Stryker
Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.
~ Frederick Lenz
That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
~ Jane Austen
Happiness is the anticipation of future happines.
~ Anna Carey, Eve
Life is the sum or product of a bunch of individual moments if you can't enjoy moments then how do you expect to enjoy life?
~ Matthew Donnelly
.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.
~ Gyula Krúdy, Sunflower
Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness
~ Vijay Dhameliya
i'm too lazy to go find happiness, but i'm sure it will swing by sometime
~ Amal Sagheer
A happy man eagerly awaits the rising of the sun.
~ Greg Dutilly
Life said to me, Be happy. Don't let me down.
~ Marty Rubin
What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.
~ Gabrielle Dubois
Happiness lies in hope.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness is a dream but as we know dreams coming true
~ Mohammed Sekouty
I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness.
~ Suleman Abdullah
We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
~ David Levithan, Every Day
When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.
~ Art Buchwald
Health is my expected heaven.
~ John Keats