Quotes About Expectations Hurt

#1. Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you.

Vikrmn

#2. 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

#3. I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.

Geraldine Brooks

#4. Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.

Sarah Addison Allen

#5. To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. The adults prove themselves to be children when they treat criticism as a virus to be exterminated.

Anis Shivani

#7. Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#8. We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must be the first revolution in history to accomplish its goals without hurting anyone's feelings.

Mary Blakely

#9. 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

#10. It's hard to see potential in a rough cut - especially with comedy, which is hit or miss. This is where my lack of experience hurt me - not in the execution of the final product, but with my expectations for it in the early stages of post.

Desiree Akhavan

#11. We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without being broken, yet we cannot continue in love without being stronger than our brokenness.

Jocelyn Soriano

#12. We expect our spouses to fill voids in our lives or hearts that only God can fill. Unmet expectations reduce a journey expected to be amazing to ordinary. Unmet expectations breed hurt feelings, misunderstanding, and unresolved conflict.

Justin Davis

#13. I went into the 'Idol' audition with no expectations; that's just the kind of person I am. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't hurt so badly, you know? But once I made it past the first round, and the second, and third - I started to realize, 'Maybe my goals and dreams really are attainable.'

Crystal Bowersox

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

Dhaval Gajera

#15. Always make your expectations known, she used to say. That way you never get hurt.

Sarah Addison Allen

#16. It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#17. For nearly four weeks, his family had been walking on eggshells around him, expecting him to fall apart at any moment and he was damn tired of it. He wished he could apart. Maybe it would hurt less if he could just say to hell with everything and find a corner to hide away in.

Nicola Sinclair

#18. It wasn't so much that Lola Plum believed she'd learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just realistic about life.

Shannon Noelle Long

#19. It was great to play with some of my old linemates.

Mario Lemieux

#20. She tore herself away, and went out. And I went away. I cannot describe the emotion with which I went away. I should not wish it ever to come again; but I should think myself unfortunate had I never experienced such an emotion.

Ivan Turgenev

#21. This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

John Bevere

#22. Remove the expectations from others and no one can hurt your feelings anymore

Anuj Singhal

#23. Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and pain
You never know when it will end, don't let a moment pass in vain ...
In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,
I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained ...

Mehek Bassi

#24. He actually looks very apologetic, but I know better than to trust the expression on a man's face. The only things worth trusting are actions, and so far he hasn't proven very trustworthy.

Colleen Hoover