Quotes about Expectations

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.

Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.

Happiness is a hard master- particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.

The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.