Less Expectations Less Disappointments Quotes

#1. In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if it were an actual order, like, 'Cut the cake and lie facedown in that ditch between the cobbler and the little girl'.

David Sedaris

#2. Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Elizabeth George

#3. We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.

Boris Yeltsin

#4. Was my life going to go on like this forever, totally uneventful? Alternating between unfulfilled expectations and expected disappointments?

Eva Heller

#5. I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing ...

Mary Russell Mitford

#6. It's important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don't stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments.

Seth Rogen

#7. When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

Dan Millman

#8. I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

Michael Landon

#9. No past. No future. Just this perfect Now.

Jacqueline Woodson

#10. If you truly dwell within Acceptance, you are wityout two things-Expectations and Disappointments.

Mary Summer Rain

#11. 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

#12. Do not lower your expectations in order to avoid hurt. Instead, keep your expectations high and learn to tackle with disappointments.

Dhaval Gajera

#13. Not that I know of. He had this idea that it was gone, sort of; not gone gone, but gone into everything, the whole matrix. Like it wasn't in cyberspace anymore, it just was.

William Gibson

#14. He wants to do something amazing in your life. Get in agreement and say, God, this is for me today. I'm raising my expectations. I'm shaking off doubt, negativity, disappointments, self-pity, little dreams, and little goals, and God, I will make room for a flood of Your goodness.

Joel Osteen

#15. If you don't get disappointed when you raise your expectations; you don't get appointments from where your mind is not!

Bayode Ojo

#16. At nineteen, one lives in the utter idolatry, therefore the extreme superstition, of sex. Monstrously exaggerated tales about sexual feats, which we listen to greedily, determine our expectations. The disappointments are correspondingly great.

Gregor Von Rezzori

#17. Usually, destructive pleasure-seeking behavior arises as an outburst of pent-up desire, and not as the expression of authentic desire.

Charles Eisenstein

#18. Life will never meet all of our expectations. We must nonetheless accept all disappointments without becoming bitter and cynical. We must always remain mindful of the opportunity to extend kindness and work to improve our character.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#19. When you expect something from your self and your own self disappoints you ... this is what i call a real disappointment . The worst disappointments comes from in-within.

Sameh Elsayed

#20. I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

Lauren Willig

#21. She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.

Raymond Chandler

#22. I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

Nik Kershaw

#23. No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

Lysa TerKeurst

#24. ... lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#25. I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments

Robin Wasserman

#26. I always have high expectations. I then cope with disappointments.

Dominique Perregaux

#27. Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

Callie Hunter

#29. You really should do some research for a change instead of just listening to the voices in your head.

John Ringo

#30. Expectations are merely disappointments under construction.') As

Marian Keyes

#31. I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

Moby

#32. I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

H.L. Mencken

#33. We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

Norm MacDonald

#34. The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

George Will

#35. While an open network ensures the equal treatment of all data - something undoubtedly essential for a democratic networked society - it does not sweep away all the problems of the old-media model, failing to adequately address the commercialization and consolidation of the digital sphere.

Astra Taylor

#36. Feel free to listen, feel free to stare.

Ani DiFranco

#37. Age has a way of sobering us. Our experiences, our disappointments, and our failures have a way of shrinking our expectations. Sometimes they wound us in a way that steals our faith and bankrupts our dreams.

Ross Parsley

#38. no expectations, no disappointments!

Eric Jerome Dickey

#39. I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

Yayoi Kusama

#40. Art has always been my salvation.

Maurice Sendak

#41. You'll have less heartaches and disappointments if you stop seeking from others the things ONLY God and you can give yourself!

Yvonne Pierre

#42. Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

Demi Lovato