Quotes about Expectation

It is natural for people to forget to be grateful; so, if we go around expecting gratitude, we are headed straight for a lot of heartaches.

I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.

I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.

The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven. The great aim of modern life has been to improve the future—or even just to reach the future, assuming that the future will inevitably be "better.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

We shouldn't be surprised when suffering and difficulty come our way; in fact, we should probably be surprised when they don't.

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said.

This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2

Let's remember that the only way to find happiness is not to expect gratitude, but to give for the joy of giving.