Expect Less And Be Happy Quotes

#1. Happy moments are like stars. They appear so close you think you can touch them, but really they're fleeting and a million miles away. Enjoy them from afar and don't come to expect them. In your life there will be more cloudy nights than clear ones.

David Estes

#2. Claire happy to no longer expect ... but embrace the sweet lovely mess that is real life.

Jess Walter

#3. Now is the moment to live fully, and live in happiness. If there is no happiness today, how can you expect to be happy tomorrow?

Satish Kumar

#4. Psychologists say don't expect your life to be happy all the time. I go with the philosophy that every day can't be tops. Life is not like that - it's up and down.

Shirley Eaton

#5. Don't expect people to always understand you. Instead, learn to understand them. Then Accept , Forgive & Love unconditionally. This is sure way to be Happy.

R.v.m.

#6. Happy are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed."5

Edward H. Burtt Jr.

#7. Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

Denis Waitley

#9. What people need to accept is that it is there responsibility to communicate what they need and what they feel, and to realize that they cannot expect someone else magically to make them happy. People want to be made happy, instead of making themselves happy

Richard Madsen

#10. Son," his father said, leaning forward. "Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect. His

Patrick Ness

#11. Forgive yourself for being an imperfect human being. The goddess doesn't expect perfection, although she does expect you to try and do better. Allow yourself to be happy. Live the life you want, and follow the path of your heart.

Deborah Blake

#12. He did not expect her to be happy - how that word lost meaning as the years progressed - but he only wished her to be unafraid, and able to experience small joys.

Amanda Coplin

#13. Happy are those who expect nothing; they won't be disappointed

Abel

#14. Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time ...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#15. Spiritual balance is the principle that allows the mind to be still. You cannot expect the world to settle down, everything to work out, in order for you to be happy. You have to get control of your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#16. I don't know. I try not to think about it too much. I'm perfectly satisfied with my life. I think unhappiness comes from unfulfilled expectations." "So the less you expect from life . . ." "No. It's not like that. I just try to be happy and not wish I could do more.

Kasie West

#17. I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.
Marya

Danielle Steel

#18. I choose whether this world lives or dies. And I'm happy to watch it burn to dust if you expect a slave instead of a queen.

Soman Chainani

#19. If you want to be happy in life, keep all of your commitments and don't expect other people to keep any of theirs.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#20. If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

Brian Tracy

#21. A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect the tears to drip off his beak.
This magpie was like that.

Colin Thiele

#22. It's comfortable and not because he makes you happy - the guy's a total asshole - but because you already know what to expect. You already know how he'll hurt you.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#23. You bite the bullet and get on with it. One can't expect to be happy all the time ... You expect to be happy, as if it's a right. It's not a right. It's a bonus. The cherry on the cake.

Santa Montefiore

#24. Sometimes I'm afraid I'm happy, but because I expect it to be something else, I question the experience. So now, when in doubt," she shrugged with true bravado, "I'll assume I'm happy.

Carrie Fisher

#25. Sometimes diehard fans expect so much that they're never happy no matter what they get.

Damon Lindelof

#26. People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

Brian Reynolds Myers

#27. It is not wrong to change in order to achieve certain goals in life. If you want a happy relationship, for example, you can't expect luck to bring it. You can't have something that implies you without being yourself there.

Robin Sacredfire

#28. Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't?

Alicia Kobishop

#29. Maybe it was being orphaned and alone all my life, but I always steeled for the worst outcome I could envision. That way I could shrug and be almost happy with anything that fell short of the worst. It was a peculiar life skill and one I had gotten damn good at.

James Anderson

#30. You will not always be happy but I guarantee it that you will always be lucky as an artist when you least expect it.

Abigail George

#31. You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

Jane Fonda

#32. There's a metaphor in that somewhere - like all of life is about ending up somewhere you didn't expect, and learning to just be happy with it.

Lauren Oliver

#33. How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

Peter De Vries

#34. When you expect happiness, you live happily. You also live happily when you choose to be happy. Expect less, choose more.

Robert J. Braathe