Expectation Quotes - Page 2

She had a dream, quite singular, dearest to her heart.She had a dream, quite eccentric, treasured in her soul.She nurtured it, she cuddled it and kept it covered in the twinkle of her eye and waited patiently with a fond expectation.Yet in that sky wrapped in the radiance of a rainbow , all but that dream came alive.She often smiled at that solitary dream with numb tears of pallid fulfilment.

Debatrayee Banerjee

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

Anthony Liccione

I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.

Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time "wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be "killed". In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of "time". ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )

Erik Pevernagie

It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.

You can't have a wrong mentality about life and expect that you will see the bright side of life.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Creativity isn't meant to introduce complexity it is expected to add simplicity.

It can get a little complicated when you have the expectation that you’re supposed to live Happily Ever After with this person when they were designed to stay with you for just a little while. Our Master designs it this way so you make the most of the relationship when you have it. She thought all soul mates were meant to be forever, when some soul mates are just meant to be.

An expectation is a thought.It has no power or influence.

When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.

Debasish Mridha

From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart; a society in which words are holy, and the challenge of life is based upon the quest for gentle words, holy words, gentle truths, holy truths. I try to imagine for myself a world in which the words one gives one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's words carefully, like precious gifts, like magnificent gifts, like magnificent inheritances, for they convey an excess of what we have imagined, they bear gifts beyond imagination, they reveal and revisit the wealth of history. How carefully, how slowly, and how lovingly we might step into our expectations of each other in such a world.

Patricia J. Williams

I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.

Look for a miracle in every encounter.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Any tiniest feeling, which fills you with peace and joy can grow to the size of a mountain, when you act on it with no expectation, where and how it must take you. Enjoy the moment of harmony and know that you can trust your Self.

Raphael Zernoff

Do not compete with anyone. Seek to exceed your own expectations.

Lailah Gifty Akita

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it.

Martin Heidegger

Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality.

Debasish Mridha

My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.

Expectation creates the reality.

Debasish Mridha

Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.

People live on the flow of the daily reality and they surge on the waves of hazy expectations. They can experience pleasant junctures and try to catch and enjoy each special moment that is offered to them. Until life takes them by surprise.

Erik Pevernagie

A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face without waking her. He steals softly over the grass, careful to make no sound; he pauses -- fancying she has stirred: he withdraws: not for worlds would he be seen. All is still: he again advances: he bends above her; a light veil rests on her features: he lifts it, bends lower; now his eyes anticipate the vision of beauty -- warm, and blooming, and lovely, in rest. How hurried was their first glance! But how they fix! How he starts! How he suddenly and vehemently clasps in both arms the form he dared not, a moment since, touch with his finger! How he calls aloud a name, and drops his burden, and gazes on it wildly! He thus grasps and cries, and gazes, because he no longer fears to waken by any sound he can utter -- by any movement he can make. He thought his love slept sweetly: he finds she is stone dead.I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.

Charlotte Brontë

Don't get mad, William," he finally said, provoking the distraught to look up at him, "I know it's hard, an' unfair, but you can't let yourself become angry. You're too nice, - too good, - if you can't at least hope for a possibility, then what happiness can you expect to have? You have to hold on to it, or else you've got nothing..." (77)

Come to me.Why must you ruin this moment?You are burdened with thought.Burdened with the pastand expectations of the future.You are burdened with your self.Cast these aside by laughing at yourself.And love,for what more is there than to love me?Take me nowand let it be heaven for us.

Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return.

How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world quanter, funnier, kinder, and more mysterious than it actually was.

Armistead Maupin

We live in a world where expectation exceed inspiration

Louise Philippe Dulay

Pray for what you want.Expect your answer in due time.Be strong to wait for the arrival of answer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is a great expectancy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Your wish has be granted by God. Time will make it manifest.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Awaken each day with the expectation that something wonderful is about to happen.

Charles F. Glassman

Don't spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn't write that's been fed to you - that simply you've accepted, embedded and added to. Let the story go and there beneath is the real you...and your unique gifts, heart and path that await you.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy.

Embrace each day with divine expectation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is a gracious expectation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words.

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet.

Do not expect much from humans. Expect much more from God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not expect anything from any one.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Human being may fail you, but God will never forsake thee.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.

Where our own mind doesn’t listen to us, how can other’s minds follow what we say? One should not have such expectation at all.

The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, ‘you can keep on burning!

The world believes ‘asakti’ [infatuation, attraction of atoms] to be love and (then) become confused. Woman has some work from men and men has some work from women. All this has arisen because of work (expectations). If work does not get completed, all within will complain and form an attack. Not for even a second has anyone become one’s own. Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] will become yours. That is why the Lord has said, ‘Every living being is an orphan’.

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you."He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt, for he knew he could never explain exactly why the idea came to him. "It's the painting of a dutiful daughter," he said eventually, looking at her cautiously to see her reaction. "You want to please. You are always aware of what the person looking at this picture will think of it. Because of that you've missed something important. Does that make sense?"She thought, then nodded. "All right," she said grudgingly and with just a touch of despair in her voice. "You win."Julien grunted. "Have another go, then. I shall come back and come back until you figure it out.""And you'll know?""You'll know. I will merely get the benefit of it.

I got married. A bright past is ahead of me!

Ljupka Cvetanova

Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy,The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.

I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.

I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations.

Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you.

Vikrmn

Expect good to happen in your day and you'll find that good things start to happen.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon

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