#expectations

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#everybody #everybody else #expectations #people #then

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ↗

— Donald Miller

#people #perfection #relationships #life

Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#commitment #expectations #love #motivational #respect

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #grief #mourning #others #personal-experience

There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#ended #even #expectations #extended #few

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#around #assumptions #everyone #expectations #film

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#based #body #dwells #expectations #limitations

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#everyone #expectations #find #i #keep

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#delightfully #dive #expectations #find #go

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#arouse #bound #course #exceeded #expectations