#expectation

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed. ↗

— Julia Glass

#disappointment

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not. ↗

— Valery Satterwhite

#expectations #letting-go #acceptance

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. [...] Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them. Thus X will never compose the immortal music that would clash with the second-rate symphonies he has accustomed us to. Y will never commit murder. Under no circumstances can Z ever betray us. We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person, the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We could prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#friendship #betrayal

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#brian-tracy #educational #expectation #expectations #life

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#expectation #letters #packaged

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that. ↗

— Pat Boone

#behavior #consequences #embodies #even #expectations

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#marriage #relationships #beauty

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#dictated #expectations #feel #like #once

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens. ↗

— Ville Valo

#because #better #big #expectations #flow

Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#expectations #reality #time #change