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“Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.”

Way Firsts Ends Pleasure Journey Eternal Expectations Shame Vain Anticipation Crowns Fruition

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.”

Made War Ends Dream Battle Expectations Fairy Conquest

Author:Jane Porter

“I know most of my records are real good but I know that there are definitely things I would've changed at the end of the day. I work on things forever, and there are things I wish I didn't do, but ultimately I know the records are good. I kind of let go of big expectations, maybe because hopefully that means if I don't have them, that it'll do really well, but you just never know.”

Ifs Knows Wells Kind Mean Real Ends Bigs Wish Forever Records Changed Letting Go Expectations Hopefully The End Of The Day

Author:Kurt Vile

“The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.”

World Ends Reality Audience Expectations Disappointment

Author:Ashwin Sanghi

“Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.”

Thinking Ends Expectations Negative Routes Dead Ends

Book:Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

Source: Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“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.”

Ifs Should Ends Moments Choices Courses Hurt Expectations Angry Stuck Traffic Horns Jam Traffic Jam Hurting Yourself

Author:Deepak Chopra

“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.”

Source: Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].

“For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.”

Humans Ends Self Left Sex Sides Possibility Despair Expectations Concern Partners Borders Satisfying Requirements Human Relations Human Relationships Disillusion

Book:Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

Source: Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.”

Source: Faith in the Public Square

“I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I was entering marriage with the highest set of expectations that humans have ever brought to the institution. It was really good to find that out. It doesn't have to be the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the moon and the stars - it can just be the moon. It's enough that it just can be what it is.”

Humans Ends Enough Facts Stars Century Products Moon Highest Expectations Institutions Enormous Entering Upbringing Alphas

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.”

Thinking Trying Ends Film Middle Expectations Filmmaker Beginning Middle And End

Author:Mark Boal

“Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.”

Men Believe Ends Belief Fame Expectations Worthy Envy Gates Sweetest

Author:Francis Bacon

“They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.”

Giving Ends Would Be Care Turns Winning Too Much Nice Expectations Give Me Luck Don't Care Honestly Being Nice Oscars Sincerely Bad Luck

Author:Robert Altman

“There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. So, if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.”

Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Long Ends Use Might Simple Reader Expectations Thirds Sentences Statements Great Men Prose Maxims Qualifications Short Words Long Words

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.”

Ends Expectations Disappointment

Book:Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

“I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations.”

Want Wells Ends Age School Term Half Heard Students Expectations Meetings Fund Elites Equity One Half Hedge Fund Private Equity

Author:Charlie Munger

“It's about how whenever I fall in love, I have these expectations of the experience being a perfect dream, which, of course, ruins it. I imagine cradling my lover's head in my lap in a cab in the middle of the night, and drinking champagne in an elegant hotel suite. But life's rarely like that, and I usually end up walking home by myself in the rain.”

“Exceeding expectations is where satisfaction ends and loyalty begins.”

Ends Expectations Satisfaction Loyalty Exceeding Expectations

Author:Ron Kaufman

“I lived through the Cold War as a child, and we always thought a nuclear bomb could end life everywhere at any time. On one hand, it created an atmosphere where you lived for the moment - because it could end at any second - but on the other, it warped a generation into thinking t there was no reasonable expectation of building a future that could be vaporized at any moment by a few morons.”

Thinking Children War Ends Moments Hands Generations Building Cold Expectations Nuclear Atmosphere Bombs Reasonable Cold War Moron Nuclear Bomb

Author:Louie Psihoyos

“Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"”

Men Believe Soul Ends Self Helping I Believe Our Lives Expectations Fellows Selfishness Fellow Man

Author:Misty Upham

“You may want to prove that you're worthy of other kids or neighbors who were wealthier than you and teased you. You may want to prove that you're worthy of high expectations. But I do think that there is a youthful ambition that very much has to do with making your mark in the world. And I think that cuts across the experiences of a lot of people who end up achieving something significant in their field.”

People Thinking World Want May Ends Kids Cutting Achieve Fields Prove Ambition Expectations Mark Worthy Neighbor Significant High Expectations

Author:Barack Obama

“Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I was the typical, still am to some extent, impecunious writer, just struggling to make ends meet, so that, nobody's going to deny that at all. In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I'm standing by, ready to receive it, but it's a problem, it's a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he'd succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature.”

“I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the worst public schools in Baltimore, with kids most people would write off because of their backgrounds. But, when I set high expectations, at the end of the day, these kids went from scoring at the bottom on standardized tests, to scoring at the top, despite their unfortunate circumstances.”

“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.”

Ends Dream Reality Expectations Greed Curse Materialism Intensity Romantic Love Diminish

Book:Out of my time

Source: Out of my time

“To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.”

World Mean Ends Done Next This World Expectations Rewards Punishment Attachment End Of The World

Author:Ramakrishna

“I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.”

Ends Able Support Wife Band Expectations My Family Blessed Family Life Support Me

Author:Josh Turner

“Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office lockdown—like a beach ball on water. The next time a problem arises in your life, take a deep breath, let out a sigh, and replace the thought Oh no! with the thought Okay.”

“In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.”

Ends Actors Challenges Situation Expectations Meetings Movie

Author:Jeff Bridges

“If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.”

People Ifs Real Ends One Thing Lows Expectations Surprising Doing Nothing

Book:Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

Source: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

“The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming tea and banished books; The sweetness of the evening at an end, The dear fatigue, and right to rest attained, And worshipped expectation of the night,— Oh, all these things, in unrelenting flight, My dream pursues through all the vain delays, Impatient of the weeks, mad at the days!”

Looks Book Ends Dream Night Hours Loses Meditation Week Expectations Mad Dear Pursue Flight Evening Tea Vain Sweetness Delay Fatigue Impatient Beam Rosy Unrelenting

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.”

Life Ends Dream Offers Expectations Grieving Reasonable Twilight Strong Women Twilight Series Bella Swan Twilight Book Twilight Movie

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.”

Ends Turns Hours Journey Becoming Periods Expectations Reaching Shifting Crumbling Expectancy

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.”

People Ifs World Believe Littles War Ends Certain Poverty Crazy Expectations Convinced Scripture Another World Rumours

Author:Shane Claiborne

“Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.”

Knows Ends Able Grace Fool Expectations Crush Sense Of Humor Sooner Or Later Humiliation

Author:Paul Murray

“Peace begins When expectation ends.”

Ends Expectations

Book:The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

“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.”

World Giving Feels Ends Self Spiritual Suffering Safe Expectations Who I Am Make Me Happy

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.”

Ifs Way Important Ends Matter Found Expectations Foundation Affair Details Contrary Secure Minors Departure

Book:Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

“I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end”

Thinking Heart Ends Able Given My Own Enemy Worst My Heart Expectations Deserve Chosen Candidates Given Up Worst Enemy My Own Worst Enemy

Author:Paulo Coelho

“No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.”

Believe Children Ends Successful Violence Society Expectations Tales

Author:Margaret Mead

“The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in frustration, because every expectation is the beginning of frustration. Why does every desire end in frustration? There are only two alternatives: either you achieve your object of desire or you don`t achieve it, but in both cases it will end in tears. If you achieve it you will see the utter futility of it all.”

Ifs Mind Doe Two Ends Desire Cases Impossible Achieve Objects Tears Expectations Alternatives Frustration Fulfilled Futility Objects Of Desire

Author:Rajneesh

“What is hope but futility for moments stood on end.”

Ends Moments Hope Expectations Futility

Author:Sydney Lee

“Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the process to its own ends. The more we become conscious of the mysterious unfolding of life, the clearer it becomes that its purpose is not to fulfill the expectations of our ego.”

Ends Self Lasts Purpose Process Goal Ego Enlightenment Expectations Conscious Rewards Mysterious Unfolding

Author:Stephen Batchelor

“If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.”