Top 100 Without Expectations Quotes
#1. Alice interrupted. No tears, no secrets. I want the life I'm meant to have, Etta. It's as simple as that. My father always says that the way to truly live is to do so without expectations or fear hanging over you, affecting your choices ...
Alexandra Bracken
#2. Giving without expectations is the ultimate secret source of abundance.
Debasish Mridha
#3. How much you can love others without expectations will define who you are.
Debasish Mridha
#4. The tribe's survival and sustenance depended on each clan sharing its gifts without expectations of getting something in return. This relationship kept the Choptanks strong and united. They lived in a bountiful land, and although variety was not always available, there was plenty for everyone.
Stan E Hughes
#5. Love's a gift, and can certainly be refused. Refusing doesn't destroy the gift, it simply puts it aside. You're free to do that. I'm not expecting a gift in return. Take what's offered, especially when it's offered so generously and without expectations.
Nora Roberts
#6. It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.
Dilip Shanghvi
#7. 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
#8. The idea of living with someone scares me senseless. I've done it before for five years, and I shut down to cope with it. I don't want to give up myself again. I hope to find someone who is happy just to continue "as is" without expectations. (Kes)
Rudy Simone
#9. Without expectations, what can topple the surprising wonder of the moment?
Ann Voskamp
#10. A true friendship is a love without expectations but with fair a share of contribution.
Debasish Mridha
#11. The sage produces without possessing, acts without expectations, and accomplishes without abiding in her accomplishments. It is precisely because she does not abide in them that they never leave her.
Lao-Tzu
#12. Success is defined, not by what you achieve in life, but by what you do for others without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#13. The worst thing you can do is to hate someone. The best thing you can do is to totally love someone without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#14. We add value to our lives by giving without expectations; we add meaning to our lives by loving unconditionally.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Live without expectations and there will be no frustration.
Rajneesh
#16. When you give without expectations, you feel that joy is rushing through you like the spring breeze caressing a newly blooming flower.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#18. He returns years later, has no demands.
He wants only one, most precious thing:
To see, purely and simply, without name,
Without expectations, fears, or hopes,
At the edge where there is no I or not-I.
Czeslaw Milosz
#19. Measure of life is not by its duration but by the amount of love you gave away without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#20. I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.
Kurt Vonnegut
#21. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.
Rumi
#22. True love is when you love someone without hesitation, without expectations, and without judgment.
Debasish Mridha
#23. I came into this without expectations. Only hope. I'll take whatever parts of you you're willing to give.
Sarah Fine
#24. It was a lonely, cold thing to live without expectations.
Kiersten White
#25. we can learn a lot from a tree; she
gives so much without expecting
anything in return. oxygen, shade,
fruit, resources. she is proud of her
roots and tough to tear down.
try to be more like a tree.
give without expectations, be
proud, be strong.
JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon
#26. To find fulfillment, nourishment, and joy, serve others with kindness and without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#27. What you do without expectations defines your success.
Debasish Mridha
#28. In the depths of the ocean;
Dipped in love without expectations,
We have stripped off our masks.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#29. 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
#30. If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.
Frederick Lenz
#31. When you let it go with love, but without expectations, it is forever yours.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse.
Jon Ronson
#33. We never want to be taken for granted, but our partners should be able to expect our honest loyalty. That is a powerfully strong foundation block for a relationship. I want to meet the greatest expectations, without being the greatest fraud.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#34. We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy.
Rush Limbaugh
#35. What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
Nicholas Sparks
#36. When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you.
Debasish Mridha
#37. 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
#38. The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).
Laozi
#39. To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
Thomas Browne
#40. Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#41. Act without expectation.
Laozi
#42. Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.
Kurt Vonnegut
#43. When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#44. I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?
Nora Ephron
#45. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed but what CAN BE observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories. And often those expectations get in the way.
Michael Crichton
#46. Giving without expectation is the beauty of humanity and its foundation.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.
Bill Bradley
#48. 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
#49. Don't let truth and grace forsake one another. If you raise your child with only truth (or your laws), they will never live up to your rules or expectations. No one can fulfill all of the law. On the other hand , if you only give grace to your children, they will run wild without restraint.
Neil Kennedy
#50. Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.
Herman Melville
#51. 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
#52. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.
Lauren Oliver
#53. Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?
Laozi
#54. Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.
Laozi
#55. Love is respect,
recognition and honour
given without expectation.
Theodore Volgoff
#56. Happiness and success require the highest possible optimism, with minimal expectations. Optimize without limits, and expect anything in particular.
Ammar Moussa
#57. 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
#58. Twitter proved without a shadow of a doubt it is much more than a social network, but a user-defined infrastructure that can be harnessed to change lives and expectations, to share and enhance unique experiences and viewpoints. - Twitchhiker
Paul Smith
#59. Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
Epictetus
#60. If you can accomplish any great task being absorbed in it and that too without any expectations, believe me, that one act of yours will make you a "historical person".
Deep Trivedi
#61. Life is a journey without destination but it unfolds our conscious and subconscious expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#63. To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#64. Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace.
John Robbins
#65. High demands and expectations without skill development, encouragement or the feeling of a "win" will lead to resentment. Demanding perfection is exhausting on the part of the person making the demands and on the person of whom the perfection is demanded.
Daniel Bates
#66. Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved
Milan Kundera
#67. When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.
Gabrielle Roth
#68. This is how Tack and Raven work: It's their private language of push and return, argument and concession. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered.
Lauren Oliver
#69. Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.
Henri Nouwen
#70. Your value is based on how much and how deeply you can love others without any expectations of a return.
Debasish Mridha
#71. The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.
Brian Tracy
#72. Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#73. People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.
Chuck Klosterman
#74. I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
Ken Burns
#75. I express through my music my philosophy, my feelings, my passion, my dreams, my fears, my hopes, my wishes and my expectations. Without music, I would be mute, like a fish without water, like a bird without wings like a human being without air.
Ricardo Derose
#76. There are a number of ways to establish someone's approximate survival expectations without actually asking.
John Green
#77. Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.
Sivananda
#78. I've learned that it's fine to have expectations, and dreams are wonderful, but once in a while, it would be good to have something come my way without having to fight for it.
Adriana Trigiani
#80. Summertime is a period for youthful explorations, a joyful time when we learn lessons without grand expectations or harsh consequences.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#81. This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.
Walter Mosley
#82. There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way.
Siri Hustvedt
#83. Every time you give away love without any expectations, you become richer.
Debasish Mridha
#85. We live in a cruel world, Isabel," he says, without looking at me. "I am only a man, and will not always live up to your expectations. And to me, that is a painful reality. But we must never be cruel to one another. Let there be peace between us.
Sylvia Bambola
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.
Human Angels
#89. Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take a look at what I was making, I had for the first time in my life written a large grip of songs completely alone and without any expectations or plans of what they would be for.
Frank Iero
#90. You can Light Up the Whole World by Giving without any Expectation Back.
Wayne Dyer
#91. We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#92. I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.
Charlotte Eriksson
#93. When we commit ourselves to paying attention in an open way, without falling prey to our own likes and dislikes, opinions and prejudices, projections and expectations, new possibilities open up and we have a chance to free ourselves from the straitjacket of unconsciousness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#94. Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations.
Norhafsah Hamid
#95. To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.
Neale Donald Walsch
#96. If it's Truth we're after, we'll find that we cannot start with any assumptions or concepts whatsoever. Instead, we must approach the world with bare, naked attention, seeing it without any mental bias - without concepts, beliefs, preconceptions, presumptions, or expectations. (6)
Steve Hagen
#97. Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.
Bertrand Russell
#98. It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there.
Lev Grossman
#99. For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unclaimed.
Kahlil Gibran
#100. After sowing seeds in the soil and completing our various tasks, we need to be able to walk away without seeking to be noticed. We should not hold on to any expectations about witnessing the harvest.
M. Fethullah Gulen
