Top 64 Expectations Happiness Quotes
#2. Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#3. 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.
Dennis Prager
#4. My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox
#5. Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.
Eckhart Tolle
#6. It's okay. You're going to save me, Miss Maylene." The girl gave her a genuine look of happiness. "I know it. I knew if I found you everything would be okay.
Melissa Marr
#7. The secret to happiness is having low expectations.
Warren Buffett
#8. As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.
Shawn Achor
#9. What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.
Gabrielle Dubois
#10. Expectations have a creative power in it, so expect what you want in life.
Debasish Mridha
#11. The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.
Olivia Goldsmith
#12. The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.
Andrew Weil
#14. Success is defined, not by what you achieve in life, but by what you do for others without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Be Happy & Appreciate Every Little Thing You Have/Get Because When You Get The Big Thing, The Happiness Would Be Unbound ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#16. He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
Alain De Botton
#17. Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.
V.C. Andrews
#18. One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
Alan Bennett
#19. So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
Cathy Guisewite
#20. Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation ... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of your life, how you integrate them is how you find true happiness.
Denise Morrison
#21. A true friendship is a love without expectations but with fair a share of contribution.
Debasish Mridha
#22. It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#23. When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.
Shakti Gawain
#24. Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Life is a journey without destination but it unfolds our conscious and subconscious expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#26. It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.
Fulton J. Sheen
#27. To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#28. Happiness and success require the highest possible optimism, with minimal expectations. Optimize without limits, and expect anything in particular.
Ammar Moussa
#29. Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.
Simone Elkeles
#30. I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
Criss Jami
#31. Perhaps Danish happiness is not really happiness at all, but something much more valuable and durable: contentedness, being satisfied with your lot, low-level needs being met, higher expectations being kept in check.
Michael Booth
#32. True expectations never ever go unnoticed. So expect happiness and expect abundance.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness
Vijay Dhameliya
#34. Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.
Tony Robbins
#35. The grass is often no greener on the other side, so stick it out and see if you can grow up within the relationship. Find happiness and emotional independence within yourself before placing unreasonable and often unexpressed expectations on your spouse.
Malti Bhojwani
#36. Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#37. Measure of life is not by its duration but by the amount of love you gave away without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#38. The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.
Dov Davidoff
#39. Life has no limits. We are limited by our expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#41. Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.
Julianne Donaldson
#42. happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.
Yuval Noah Harari
#43. Expect success, abundance, and happiness. You will attract only that which you expect.
Debasish Mridha
#44. It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
Earl Nightingale
#45. True love is when you love someone without hesitation, without expectations, and without judgment.
Debasish Mridha
#46. The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!
Garrison Wynn
#47. A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
Jodi Picoult
#49. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Anthony De Mello
#51. An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.
Dalai Lama
#52. Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness
Dennis Prager
#53. Don't you know there's another bubble as well? An expectations bubble. Bigger houses, private planes, yachts ... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well, as all bubbles do.
Edward Rutherfurd
#54. Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.
Deepak Chopra
#55. Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.
Sriveena Dhagavkar
#56. The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there.
Angela Carter
#57. To find fulfillment, nourishment, and joy, serve others with kindness and without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Most of the time reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.
Sriveena Dhagavkar
#59. You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.
Lisa Kleypas
#60. It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always realize under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy.
Adam Phillips
#61. What you do without expectations defines your success.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Those times, against all expectations, were turning out to be good times. Then he felt afraid, because he knew they couldn't last long and those stolen drops of happiness and peace would evaporate.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#64. When you let it go with love, but without expectations, it is forever yours.
Debasish Mridha
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