Expectations quotations

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◆ Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

- Brandon Sanderson99

◆ Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

- Gautama Buddha99

◆ That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

- Lev Grossman99

◆ You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie99

◆ Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

- Simone de Beauvoir99

◆ To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

- Jane Austen99

◆ When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.

- M.E. Thomas99

◆ There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

- Roberto Bola?o99

◆ We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

- Brian Tracy99

◆ If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

- Tonya Hurley99

◆ It is sad that some people expect things from you when they are in trouble, but they don't even remember you when everything is fine with them!

- Abhishek Tiwari99

◆ No regrets... just lessons. No worries... just acceptance. No expectations... just gratitude. Life is too short.

- Jesse Joseph99