“Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.”— Martin Farquhar Tupper, amazon.com
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You can’t write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”— Henry Miller, amazon.com
“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”— Richard P. Feynman, amazon.com
“We assume that others show their love in the same way that we do and if they don’t follow that equation, we worry that the love is not there.”— Amy Przeworski, psychologytoday.com
“I hardly know myself. Do not expect me to know who I ought to be in years to come.”— David Jones, story-dj.tumblr.com
“That’s why I’m talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Expectation wasn’t just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met.”— Rachel Machacek, amazon.com
“Expectation is a powerful attractive force, because it draws things to you. As Bob Proctor says, ‘Desire connects you with the thing desired and expectation draws it into your life.’ Expect the things you want, and don’t expect the things you don’t want. What do you expect now?”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“In time, they seemed to lose a bit of luster because she’d come to expect them. So I’d rack my brain, trying to think of another way to please her, something that would let her know how much she still meant to me.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.”— Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca