“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.”— Philip Roth, goodreads.com
“Many of your expectations were once goals that have become fossilized.”— Phillip Moffitt, twitter.com
“When you are controlled by your expectations, you aren’t open to possibilities in the present moment.”— Phillip Moffitt, twitter.com
“Have the balls to fulfill her expectations -- although after everything that has happened with her, she doesn't really have any.”— Simran Bagga, instagram.com
“As they have high expectations for themselves, they also expect a lot from their partners. Unless kept in check, this quality can be a real deal-breaker because no one’s perfect.”— David Vanallen, reflectionofmind.org
“Life was easier when you stopped caring, when you stopped expecting things to get better.”— Cora Carmack, amazon.com
“People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them…”— Chloe Rattray, amazon.com
“Be careful what you wish for, because it probably won't come true and life is mostly about expectation management.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“Let go of all the expectations, let go of all the timelines and let go of the notion that at a certain age, you have to be more accomplished than others or you need to have it all together.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Both of you need to be clear with what you expect of with each other during this long distance relationship. Set some ground rules so that none of you will do things that will take the other party by surprise. For instance, are you two exclusive? Is it alright for the other person to go on dates? Wh…”— Keay Nigel, lifehack.org
“You can’t go into the world with a stencil of what you want and then think less of people because they’re just doing their own thing.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“but I hope you find what you deserve I hope you discover the type of love that you've wasted upon others I hope you understand that what you demand is never too much and if what you request begins to feel like a burden then you're expecting those things from the wrong people”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“Maybe you're just seeing what you wanted to see.”— Howard Gordon, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com
“One of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect.”— Jane Green, amazon.com