Quotes by Expectations The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience. Andrew Weil expectationsattitudehappiness There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair. Angel Olsen unfairkindexpectations It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones. Ann Brashares easierbigsexpectations Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them. Ann Landers expectationschildrenway I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations. Ann Richards expectationsmothernurse Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling. Ann Voskamp weightexpectationsfall When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before. Anna Friel doneexpectationsfirsts When I went, I hadn't had very much time to have hopes or expectations. I knew very little about Nashville, and I think that was probably good. When I was there, I got really lucky - I ended up with people that just were amazing musicians, and that's the Nashville that I experienced. That is a big part of Nashville - there's a lot of musicians, and that makes it a very special place and shapes the city. Anna Ternheim expectationspeoplethinking There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over 'Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?' Anne Hathaway stressexpectationsletting-go Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business. Anne Lamott pondsexpectationsattention Expectations are resentments under construction. Anne Lamott resentmentparentingexpectations When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. Anne Lamott floatsexpectationssometimes Expectations are resentment waiting to happen. Anne Lamott resentmentexpectationswaiting When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community. Anne Lamott communityfaithexpectations Everything we do in life, we do with certain expectations. Anne Rice certainexpectations I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you. Annie Lennox expectationspeoplethinking But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold. Anthony Burgess expectationsdiscoverythinking It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest. Anthony Edwards expectationskidsthinking No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well. Anthony Hopkins expect-nothingexpectationslife-is I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore. Anthony Hopkins stageexpectationsyoung«1234567891011»
