“We’re more than our mistakes. We’re more than what people expect of us.”— Marieke Nijkamp, amazon.com
“It’s fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there’s another one tomorrow. I’m going to start making them count.”— Tim Tharp, amazon.com
“What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“I don’t hold on to anything anymore. Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It’s just not my thing anymore.”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“You make yourself strong because it’s expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I never thought of her as a thing to be considered by daylight. The many times I had seen her, none had been in the day. I expected her like I expected the moon.”— John Fante, amazon.com
“Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don’t expect it from cheap people.”— Warren Buffett, breakingthebrand.org
“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”— Henry Miller, amazon.com
“Sometimes my entire life has felt like one long exercise in lowering my expectations.”— Melissa DeCarlo, amazon.com
“I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.”— Douglas Pagels, amazon.com