Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel JohnsonTags: inspirational expectations surprise gladness
Would you like to know your future?
If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.
So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.
Tags: life future knowledge journey surprises news motivation survival mystery revelation tomorrow fortune expectations unknown surprise motive next survive motives unexpected advance coming expected fortell fortelling knowing-ahead precognition surprise-endings
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 course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
C.S. LewisTags: experience reality suffering mourning grief others expectations personal-experience
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
Bruce LeeTags: individuality wisdom expectations peer-pressure
It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.
Robert E. LeeTags: acceptance expectations
What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
Sharon CreechTags: fear expectations
Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...
Tayeb SalihTags: education society expectations bourgeois bourgeoisie
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.
Ronnie OldhamTags: dreaming expectations excellence caring acheivement expecting risking
Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.
Brenda UelandTags: writing perseverance effort expectations
You don't seem mad at all,' she said.
But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?
Tags: life philosophy madness depression expectations thoughts
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