Quotes about Expectations

What happens is our lives become so heavily oriented around the expectations of others that we become more and more like them and less and less like ourselves. We become split. I was split. I had this person I knew I was made to be, yet it was mixed in with all of these other ... people. As the lights were turned on, I saw I had all of this guilt and shame because I wasn't measuring up to the image of the perfect person I had in my head.

when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite--always.

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

Moreover, it might not even be desirable to follow your bliss. Should you quit your job as an accountant, office manager, or salesperson and jump immediately into opera singing, painting, or raising roses because that's what you really love? Normal life would be disrupted if everyone ran around doing only the things they loved. But that is how most people interpreted Campbell's explanation.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls:

Do your best to rein in your desire. For if you desire something that isn't within your own control, disappointment will surely follow; meanwhile, you will be neglecting the very things that are within your control that are worthy of desire.

When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.