Expectation Quotes

Embrace each day with divine expectation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy.

~ Maya Angelou

Don't spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn't write that's been fed to you - that simply you've accepted, embedded and added to. Let the story go and there beneath is the real you...and your unique gifts, heart and path that await you.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Awaken each day with the expectation that something wonderful is about to happen.

~ Charles F. Glassman

Expect nothing, be amazed by everything.

~ Todd Stocker

Your wish has be granted by God. Time will make it manifest.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is a great expectancy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pray for what you want.Expect your answer in due time.Be strong to wait for the arrival of answer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world quanter, funnier, kinder, and more mysterious than it actually was.

~ Armistead Maupin

Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Come to me.Why must you ruin this moment?You are burdened with thought.Burdened with the pastand expectations of the future.You are burdened with your self.Cast these aside by laughing at yourself.And love,for what more is there than to love me?Take me nowand let it be heaven for us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face without waking her. He steals softly over the grass, careful to make no sound; he pauses -- fancying she has stirred: he withdraws: not for worlds would he be seen. All is still: he again advances: he bends above her; a light veil rests on her features: he lifts it, bends lower; now his eyes anticipate the vision of beauty -- warm, and blooming, and lovely, in rest. How hurried was their first glance! But how they fix! How he starts! How he suddenly and vehemently clasps in both arms the form he dared not, a moment since, touch with his finger! How he calls aloud a name, and drops his burden, and gazes on it wildly! He thus grasps and cries, and gazes, because he no longer fears to waken by any sound he can utter -- by any movement he can make. He thought his love slept sweetly: he finds she is stone dead.I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Its like reproaching someone who has no ear for music because he's bored at a symphony concert. Is it fair to blame me because you ascribed to me qualities that I hadn't got? I never tried to deceive you by pretending I was anything I wasn't. I was just pretty and gay. You don't ask for a pearl necklace or a sable coat at a booth in a fair, you ask for a tin trumpet and a toy balloon.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

People live on the flow of the daily reality and they surge on the waves of hazy expectations. They can experience pleasant junctures and try to catch and enjoy each special moment that is offered to them. Until life takes them by surprise.

~ Erik Pevernagie

Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.

~ R. N. Prasher

Expectation creates the reality.

~ Debasish Mridha

My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.

~ Sylvia Plath

Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality.

~ Debasish Mridha

Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it.

~ Martin Heidegger

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

~ Nenia Campbell

Do not compete with anyone. Seek to exceed your own expectations.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Any tiniest feeling, which fills you with peace and joy can grow to the size of a mountain, when you act on it with no expectation, where and how it must take you. Enjoy the moment of harmony and know that you can trust your Self.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Look for a miracle in every encounter.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.

~ Amit Kalantri

From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart; a society in which words are holy, and the challenge of life is based upon the quest for gentle words, holy words, gentle truths, holy truths. I try to imagine for myself a world in which the words one gives one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's words carefully, like precious gifts, like magnificent gifts, like magnificent inheritances, for they convey an excess of what we have imagined, they bear gifts beyond imagination, they reveal and revisit the wealth of history. How carefully, how slowly, and how lovingly we might step into our expectations of each other in such a world.

~ Patricia J. Williams

When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.

~ Debasish Mridha

An expectation is a thought.It has no power or influence.

~ Dee Dee Artner

It can get a little complicated when you have the expectation that you’re supposed to live Happily Ever After with this person when they were designed to stay with you for just a little while. Our Master designs it this way so you make the most of the relationship when you have it. She thought all soul mates were meant to be forever, when some soul mates are just meant to be.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Creativity isn't meant to introduce complexity it is expected to add simplicity.

~ Amit Kalantri

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You can't have a wrong mentality about life and expect that you will see the bright side of life.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.

~ Criss Jami

Espere in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: waiting and hoping. If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be killed. In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of time. (Waiting for a place behind the geraniums )

~ Erik Pevernagie

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.

~ Criss Jami

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

~ Stanisław Lem

I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?

~ Kate Mcgahan

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

~ Anthony Liccione

From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart; a society in which words are holy, and the challenge of life is based upon the quest for gentle words, holy words, gentle truths, holy truths.I try to imagine for myself a world in which the words one gives one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's words carefully, like precious gifts, like magnificent gifts, like magnificent inheritances, for they convey an excess of what we have imagined, they bear gifts beyond imagination, they reveal and revisit the wealth of history.How carefully, how slowly, and how lovingly we might step into our expectations of each other in such a world.

~ Patricia J. Williams

Desire great things in life.Expect great things in life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing whatever happens, after the first blow has fallen, after the first catch of the breath, the first gulp of misery, we turn our eyes with all their old eagerness to a point a little further along the road.

~ Elizabeth Von Arnim