Quotes about Expectations
A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
— Alain de Botton
For many, the point of marriage isn't so much to be in love as to stop having to think of love.
— Alain de Botton
Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments. We have allowed our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.
— Alain de Botton
A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.
— Alain de Botton
But reassurance can be the cruelest antidote to anxiety. Our rosy predictions both leave the anxious unprepared for the worst.
— Alain de Botton
What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
— Lady Gaga
The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.
— Larry Crabb
Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
— Les Brown
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
— Marcus Aurelius
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
— Les Brown
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
— Albert Einstein