When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.
I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.
It's always better if you can keep the bar low, and then exceed the expectation. When it's high, that makes the job even tougher. But, I think we're up for the challenge. We're ready.
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
The front windows as are the watchmen of grief - I've been looking beyond expectation - Beyond myself - and I do not know as I love you - Which one of us is missing.
You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.
Peace begins When expectation ends.
I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.
Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and impatience challenge charity, hope braces our resolve and urges us to care for our fellowmen even without expectation of reward. The brighter our hope, the greater our faith. The stronger our hope, the purer our charity.
That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.
Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already. ' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known.
People can get a bit like, "Oh my God, your life is different than mine. " But no, it's not. Everyone's got the same problems. We all get jobs, and we lose them. We have a good time, and we don't have a good time. It's changed in that some people have a certain expectation of what they might find when they meet me, which sucks, because I'm not that thing.
True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. " (Quoting an old adage)
Patience is the absence of expectation.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
What makes a date so dreadful is the weight of expectation attached to it. There is every chance that you may meet your soulmate, get married, have children and be buried side by side. There is an equal chance that the person you meet will look as if they've already been buried for some time.