Expectations Quotes - Page 19

• If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Important, Foundation, Details

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.69, Bottom of the Hill

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• Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Butterfly, Soul

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.115, London

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• I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash of expectations that can never all be met. What one-tenth of my readership may not be crazy about the other nine-tenths savors. The moment you start altering a book or a painting or any type of art as if it's a public collaborative, you crucify its soul. I'd rather irritate a few people and delight a lot than touch no one." ~ Karen Marie Moning

  Karen Marie Moning

  Art, Crazy, Book

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• For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and all the trouble we enjoyed stirring up out there, we were also cut off from the demands and expectations that had driven us crazy. What could be expected of us now that we were stowed away in a loony bin?

  Susanna Kaysen

  Crazy, Cutting, World

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.94, Vintage

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• I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Thinking, Worst Enemy

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• Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

  Rumi

  Heaven, Negotiation, Manage

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• With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

  Lauren Oliver

  Language, Cures, Exhausting

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Ponds, Attention, Littles

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• Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stars, Laughter, Hearing

  Joseph Conrad (1995). “Heart of Darkness and Other Stories”, p.76, Wordsworth Editions

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• In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words to me, what mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Knowing, Giving, One Day

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• These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

  Tablo

  Secret, Age, Pieces

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• You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Gratitude, Rewards, Doing The Right Thing

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.232, Penguin

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• Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.

  Alice Miller

  Children, People, Parent

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.87, Basic Books

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• I made lasagna for dinner," Tamsyn called out. "That work for you?" He continued to look at her, as if he'd drink her up with his eyes. "Anything is fine." "Maybe I shouldn't waste my lasagna on you, then." Tamsyn grabbed a container from the cooling unit. "How about some cardboard instead?" Brenna found herself amused in spite of the blood that continued to scent the air and the taut expectation that stretched between her and Judd. Lips twitching, she waited for his response. "Cardboard has no nutritional value." Utterly toneless. "Lasagna would be a better choice.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Air, Blood

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.852, Penguin

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• ...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

  Richard Carlson

  Letting Go, Uptight, Serious

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations.

  Darynda Jones

  Opportunity, Action, Responsible

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Despair

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• Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head. Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth.

  Rick Riordan

  Sea, Feelings, Annabeth

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• Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.

  Joseph Murphy

  Mind, Busy, Conscious

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• I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

  Veronica Roth

  Parent, Example, Handprints

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.32, HarperCollins

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• Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  People, Feelings, Mind

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin

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• An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Insecure, Giving

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• You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Done, Angry

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• If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Positive, Thinking, Achievement

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• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

  Carl Sagan

  Positive, Hope, Educational

  Nobel Award Ceremony Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2017.

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