Top 100 Expectations Love Quotes
#1. Love comes softly, it cannot be forced ... cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
Ann Voskamp
#2. Love is giving with no expectations ... Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
Bernie Siegel
#3. 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
#4. That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.
Shannon L. Alder
#5. Every time you give away love without any expectations, you become richer.
Debasish Mridha
#6. Much has been written about what makes families work. The consensus is that families that support the emotional well-being and growth of their members combine two almost opposite traits. They combine discipline with spontaneity, rules with freedom, high expectations with unstinting love.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#7. The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one's new beau consistently failing to meet up to the grand expectations set by the meaning of one's existence. The only one.
Denis Fitzpatrick
#9. Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
Neale Donald Walsch
#10. It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.
Marianne Williamson
#11. I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
Tommy Shaw
#12. Measure of life is not by its duration but by the amount of love you gave away without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Love doesn't fail us, it's our expectations that fail us. Lovers sometimes forget that the gift is the call to love itself, and not the result. The quickening, the deepening, the merging, the burning bright in love's cosmic kiln. That's the great gift, no matter where it leads.
Jeff Brown
#14. To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.
Shirley Maclaine
#15. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.
Rumi
#16. Today I will honor, cherish, and love myself. When I get confused about what to do, I just have to remember that I need to be true to myself. I will break free of the hold that others-and their expectations-ha ve on me.
Melody Beattie
#17. I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It's like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don't really feel that part until I'm into whatever I'm going to wear.
Elton John
#18. I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing ...
Jacob M. Appel
#19. People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#20. True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
Suze Orman
#21. I love you Micah. You may not want it. You may not need it. But you'll always have it. It doesn't come with any strings or expectations. It's given freely.
Maya Banks
#22. You should never, ever, let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You have a choice whether to meet others expectations of you, or strive to meet your own.
Jennie Runk
#23. After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.
Hector Elizondo
#24. May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is the Father, Son and Spirit.
Brennan Manning
#25. He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire
Cinda Williams Chima
#26. When reentering society and risking rejection, the library is a good place to start. They have low expectations. I love the library. Also church. Both have to take you in.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#27. Larry Hein, who wrote the blessing: May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is Father, Son, and Spirit
Brennan Manning
#28. Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day, we will make an effort to experience love, love that is free from selfishness, free from desire, free from expectation, love that is complete freedom.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
#29. I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.
Bong Joon-ho
#30. To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it. To love as God loves us
in freedom and with no strings attached
is a way to grant others a liberating gift.
Mark Galli
#31. It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.
Dennis Lehane
#32. Your value is based on how much and how deeply you can love others without any expectations of a return.
Debasish Mridha
#34. In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#35. Being in love can change almost anything: from your expectations and limitations to your very life plans. It's a completely unpredictable force. And how it operates within any particular relationship is a total mystery to anyone outside of that ...
Zack Love
#36. The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?
Robert Fulghum
#37. I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.
Gwendoline Christie
#38. Love can be complicated, and not always up to your expectations.
Auliq Ice
#39. The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
Sharon Salzberg
#40. The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure
You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.
William Goldman
#41. Real love doesn't die. It's the physical body that dies. Genuine, authentic love has no expectations whatsoever; it doesn't even need the physical presence of a person ... Even when he is dead and buried that part of you that loves the person will always live.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#42. In the depths of the ocean;
Dipped in love without expectations,
We have stripped off our masks.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#43. Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.
Shams Tabrizi
#44. I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.
Sebastian Thrun
#45. sStip settling for someone who doesn't meet your expectations and find someone whom already holds the characteristics you're looking for.
Nikki Rowe
#46. I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.
Mandy Moore
#47. I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.
William Shakespeare
#48. Keep your expectations high,
Not because you are better than anyone else, but because you have experienced enough pain; to realise, you won't settle anymore.
Nikki Rowe
#49. I had shelved expectations of another kiss; the intensity of not kissing now worked almost as well - the proximity and denial.
Olivia Sudjic
#50. No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It's how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable.
Sharon Salzberg
#51. When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#52. Sex is not a tryout. If she fails to live up to your expectations in the bedroom, will you love her less? If so, you can be certain you never loved her to begin with.
Jason Evert
#53. Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game.
Marty Turco
#54. She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.
Elizabeth George
#55. Spiritual in nature or clean and wholesome, but the type of reader who'd enjoy my books about angels, love, and family would very much have these expectations.
Emlyn Chand
#56. Emptiness and the not-"I" is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#57. If sex is a skill, with its attendant expectations, frustrations, and failures, you are graded on performance; if it is an expression of love and commitment, you are not graded at all.
Ron Brackin
#58. He would say things like, "But you are my wife!" when I didn't do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.
Brenda Perlin
#59. I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet ... I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there's usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn't all you'd hoped it to be.
Jillian Lauren
#60. When you love, love with with all your heart; don't have any expectations. You love because that's the only way you know how. It justifies your life.
Rita Zahara
#61. Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel.
Jude Bijou
#62. Accept the children the way we accept trees - with gratitude, because they are a blessing - but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.
Isabel Allende
#63. Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#64. We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection
Anna R.
#65. There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil
improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"
"Are you a young lady?"
"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.
Charlotte Bronte
#66. You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#67. In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.
Sharon Salzberg
#68. I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don't expect anything from anyone. Expectations always hurt. Life is short, so love your life, be happy and keep smiling.
Anonymous
#69. Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
Greg Louganis
#70. Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
Abigail Van Buren
#71. I realized love won't obey our expectations, it's mystery is pure and absolute.
Richard LaGravenese
#72. With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.
Sharon Salzberg
#73. Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.
Judith Viorst
#74. People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them ...
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
#75. Though I am not an avid reader but I like romantic books. Love is a good thing. At times in love, there are disappointments ... one must not keep expectations. I like to be positive in love. I believe in happy endings.
Katrina Kaif
#76. No one will take care of me but me. I let go of all expectations and love and accept myself.
Leslie Volker
#77. Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#78. People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.
Steven Sinofsky
#79. If you put me on a pedestal, I will fall off because I can never achieve the perfection of your expectations.
D.S. Mixell
#80. We may love to say many things, but if these are not uttered in the Holy Spirit it is better to say nothing. The flesh can conjure up many plans and methods and be full of expectations. The righteousness of the flesh is as abhorrent as its sin we must always maintain God's view of the flesh.
Watchman Nee
#81. Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality.
Debasish Mridha
#82. I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.
Richard Baxter
#83. La vie est belle ... La vie est loca!
Sometimes up ... Other times down
Big smiles ... Waterfalls
Make the best of it ... As no one knows
It's up to you how it goes
Larissa Qat
#84. Falling in love isn't about expectations or an outcome.
It is about the sheer, weightless, joyous terror of falling into the universal embrace.
Joyce Wycoff
#85. No matter how long you have been waiting, the man God has for you will surpass your expectations. You will meet him when god says so. Not a minute early, not a moment later.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#86. 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
#87. Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation.
Rajneesh
#88. Self-awareness and healthy self-love go hand in hand. When we love what God has given us and share it with others naturally and without expectations for gratitude we are truly people who have spiritual self-confidence and compassion; and isn't that a great way to live?
Robert J. Wicks
#89. Love is respect,
recognition and honour
given without expectation.
Theodore Volgoff
#90. Jesus' love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him.
Todd Stocker
#91. I just love that. Give people something good to live up to - something great - and they usually will. In fact, often they'll even exceed those expectations.
Bob Burg
#92. Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?
Laozi
#93. Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#94. That being in love can change almost anything: from your expectations and limitations to your very life plans. It's a completely unpredictable force. And how it operates within any particular relationship is a total mystery to anyone outside of that relationship.
Zack Love
#95. You can't give love when you haven't experienced love.
Kemi Sogunle
#96. One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other - not with one person wanting a fling and the other real love ...
Alain De Botton
#97. I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.
Rachel Cohn
#98. I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.
Grant Morrison
#99. Exert energy to get it, give love to be loved and challenge yourself beyond expectations. You are not as fickle as you think
Gabrielle Anna
#100. How much you can love others without expectations will define who you are.
Debasish Mridha
