Quotes about Expectations

the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop, and that hurts.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

For many, the point of marriage isn't so much to be in love as to stop having to think of love.

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.

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.

But reassurance can be the cruelest antidote to anxiety. Our rosy predictions both leave the anxious unprepared for the worst.

What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life