Drop Expectations Quotes

#1. Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.

Leon Brown

#2. [T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

Joseph Campbell

#3. If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.

Amity Shlaes

#4. Yes, sex is troublesome and beautiful. And only when we drop our expectations, and know that we'll have moments of great sex and moments when our sexuality confounds, pains, or infuriates us, will we be liberated to enjoy it in a way that's true to ourselves.

Alexandra Katehakis

#5. I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you.

Greg Norman

#6. When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be present in this moment because you're no longer looking to the next one. Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. Gary had hoped to find her more cooperative. He already had one "alternative" sibling and he didn't need another. It frustrated him that people could so happily drop out of the world of conventional expectations; it felt like a unilateral rewriting, to his disadvantage, of the rules of life.

Jonathan Franzen