“Shame you had such low standards for yourself.”— Rightor Doyle, Mistress Mira, Nana Mensah, imdb.com
“We’re all guilty of doing this; forgetting who we are because we’re really into someone, we let them get away with the things we frown upon, we forgive them when they weren’t even sorry, we give them so many things they didn’t even earn.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes my entire life has felt like one long exercise in lowering my expectations.”— Melissa DeCarlo, amazon.com
“If someone's standards are 'too high' it's usually because at some point they were too low, and they suffered the consequences because of it.”— Sarah Miller, twitter.com
“When you accept everything, (your date showing-up an hour late with no phone call, him/her being too busy to help you out in a genuine emergency, or cancelling plans last minute because there is something else he/she would rather do) regardless of how you feel about it—you come off as needy.”— Amber Lewter, rscounselingatlanta.com
“Comparing your personal standards with other people’s standards is a dangerous game. Remember that most people have very low standards and expectations of themselves, and that is why most people live a mediocre existence. Comparing yourself with the way they live their life; with their standards; wi…”— Adam Sicinski, blog.iqmatrix.com