Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did--a home, someone to lean on when the not-so-perfect times came crashing down?
Christie CraigTag: hope expectations someone-to-lean-on
The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.
Angel WagensteinTag: truth sadness hope expectations
Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join.
Shannon L. AlderTag: religion judgement expectations beliefs testimony acceptance-of-others selfrighteousness
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Mark TwainTag: expectations
And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me.
Victor L. WootenTag: truth expectations
Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?
Shannon L. AlderTag: life relationships friendships perfection expectations flaws perfectionist
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
George EliotTag: patience expectations
I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person.
Tom WalshTag: life happiness acceptance living attitude expectations
When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment "flattens the terrain of power relations." In other words, we can talk about doing it for us until our high-end lipstick flakes off, but we should also keep in mind that we probably wouldn't even be thinking about what life would be like with a new nose or perkier breasts or shapelier inner thighs if it weren't for a long-standing cultural ideal that rewards those who adhere to it with power that often doesn't speak its name, but is instantly recognizable to those who don't have it.
Andi ZeislerTag: feminism choices expectations appearances plastic-surgery
I want everyone to stop telling me to lower my expectations.
Tracy GuzemanTag: expectations
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