#expectation

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. ↗

— Patricia McCormick

#disappointment #expectations #hope #life #strategy

Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations. ↗

— Matthew Hayden

#built #everything #expectations #going #i

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. ↗

— George Eliot

#experience #motive #experience

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#life #life

Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver. ↗

— John McHugh

#although #commitment #deliver #expectation #motto

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#gladness #inspirational #surprise #inspirational

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#disappointed #expectations #film #good #pleasantly

He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life. ↗

— Anne Frasier

#life #life

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up. ↗

— Franklin Raines

#based #believes #coming #expectations #flooded

Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease. ↗

— Lama Surya Das

#approval #buddhism #buddhist-wisdom #craving #desire