“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Just as it hurts to feel unloved, somehow it also hurts to be loved. Expectations come with love and we cannot always fulfill them. Sometimes this is what hurts the most.”— Lynette Simeone, wnq-writers.com
“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing [or] person… Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”— Kim Culbertson, amazon.com
“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”— Ann Patchett, amazon.com
“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“I have no control over what people think of me but I have one-hundred percent control of what I think of myself.”— Beth Ditto, theguardian.com
“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”— John Green, amazon.com
“He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I am inclined to satisfy the claims of my own ideals rather than the expectations of others.”— Richard Wright, amazon.com
“It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“People like you hold their loved ones above ideals. They’ll do anything to protect them, no matter what it costs.”— Aimee Carter, amazon.com
“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com