Quotes About Expectations And Happiness

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Michael J. Fox

#4. 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

#5. The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

Olivia Goldsmith

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Life is a journey without destination but it unfolds our conscious and subconscious expectations.

Debasish Mridha

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Happiness and success require the highest possible optimism, with minimal expectations. Optimize without limits, and expect anything in particular.

Ammar Moussa

#15. I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Criss Jami

#16. 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

#17. True expectations never ever go unnoticed. So expect happiness and expect abundance.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

Tony Robbins

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

Debasish Mridha

#22. 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

#23. To find fulfillment, nourishment, and joy, serve others with kindness and without expectations.

Debasish Mridha

#24. The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there.

Angela Carter

#25. Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.

Deepak Chopra

#26. 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

#27. Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness

Vijay Dhameliya

#28. The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!

Garrison Wynn

#29. True love is when you love someone without hesitation, without expectations, and without judgment.

Debasish Mridha

#30. It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

Earl Nightingale

#31. Expect success, abundance, and happiness. You will attract only that which you expect.

Debasish Mridha

#32. 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

#33. 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