People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.
Charmian HusseyTags: disappointment expectations
Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness
Vijay DhameliyaTags: life happiness sadness expectations life-lesson
I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham’s. ‘Why of course he is not the right sort of man, Pip,’ said my guardian, comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head, ‘because the man who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man.
Charles DickensTags: trust expectations
The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.
George R. StewartTags: expectations trouble
The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.
J. Cornell MichelTags: goals happiness beauty goal happy control depression achievement apocalypse expectations unhappiness apocalyptic helping-others help hard-work beautiful superiority zombie depressing superior pretty ordinary-people zombies helping unhappy crush depressed achieve ordinary ordinariness expect pretty-girls crushed work-hard zombie-apocalypse pretty-people enamored ordinary-looking ordinary-looks
And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.
James JoyceTags: people alone expectations voices phantoms
She looked around her apartment which seemed to be waiting for something. Lana hated that, when the room was a pregnant pause.
Laura JacobsTags: waiting expectations promise
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
Anthony LiccioneTags: words prediction pain perspective belief confidence hope curiosity roses trust foresight destiny suspense waiting false presumption expectations anticipation shower speeches assurance contemplation thorns intentions broken-promises lookout reckoning eager abeyance auspices prospect receiver sanguine
All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is here that the competition is the greatest, the expectations most elevated. If the boy would be happier as a telephone linesman or a forest ranger, he is in a hopeless bind. His goals have been set for him by his milieu, and he cannot be his own man; so he simply refuses to play the game. He "does not try.
Sydney J. HarrisTags: expectations
Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don't add up nearly so well, that I'm just a shadowed reflection of them. Now that question hounds me a lot more often than I like to admit.
Cooper DavisTags: parents identity children expectations synergy fears worries weight-of-expectations
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