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You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.
Shannon L. Alder
...heroes represent success, the acquisition of true love, and a prosperous future, whereas villains embrace the more realistic and less glamorized version of our reality - a world in which not every problem can be solved with a sweep of a magic wand or true love's kiss." Whitney Atkinson - Glamorized Recovery: Expectation vs. Reality.
Amerie (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)
If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.
Shannon L. Alder
To fight against these falsehoods, though, one needed to be able to see past the present-day and very male-oriented distortion lens to the underlying truth. Beyond question, Molly Valle could do this. A woman whose surface appearance, eyeglasses and conservative clothes, fit the schoolmarm stereotype to a T. Yet she had sloughed off that exterior and society’s restrictions as effortlessly as she had her clothes, and during their lovemaking, she had not only kept up with him but often passed ahead of him. With other women, he had seen the embers of passion but never the flame. Tonight, he had witnessed the bonfire.
Ray Smith (The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen)
Then she will marry the man whom she is currently trying to find both online and in real life, the man with the smile lines and the dog and/or cat, the man with an interesting surname that she can double-barrel with Jones, the man who earns the same as or more than her, the man who likes hugs more than sex and has nice shoes and beautiful skin and no tattoos and a lovely mum and attractive feet. The man who is at least five feet ten, but preferably five feet eleven or over. The man who has no baggage and a good car and a suggestion of abdominal definition although a flat stomach would suffice. This man has yet to materialize and Libby is aware that she is possibly a little over-proscriptive.
Lisa Jewell (The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1))
How wide the gulf between Henry as he was and Henry as Helen thought he ought to be! And she herself—hovering as usual between the two, now accepting men as they are, now yearning with her sister for Truth. Love and Truth—their warfare seems eternal. Perhaps the whole visible world rests on it, and if they were one, life itself, like the spirits when Prospero was reconciled to his brother, might vanish into air, into thin air.
E.M. Forster (Howards End)
The trouble with you, Charles, is that basically you despise women, whereas I, in spite of some appearances to the contrary, do not." "I don't despise women. I was in love with all Shakespeare's heroines before I was twelve." "But they don't exist, dear man, that's the point. They live in the never-never land of art, all tricked out in Shakespeare's wit and wisdom, and mock us from there, filling us with false hopes and empty dreams. The real thing is spite and lies and arguments about money.
Iris Murdoch (The Sea, the Sea)
Manifest of souls; Adventurous soul, Enthusiastic soul, Sound soul, Happy soul, Great soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
Our eyes see the future we desire And if yearning is enough, turn blind entire To any threats that challenge our hope. Oh, how small indeed is Reality's scope.
Kristian Ventura (Can I Tell You Something?)
We heard of ambushes on roads we knew, of villages attacked, of headmen and officials killed. It was at this time that Mahesh said something which I remembered. It wasn't the kind of thing I was expecting from him - so careful of his looks and clothes, so spoiled, so obsessed with his lovely wife. Mahesh said to me: "What do you do? You live here, and you ask that? You do what we all do. You carry on.
V.S. Naipaul (A Bend in the River)
But you said I had to spend some time with them!” “A few hours, lad,” Grandpa Smedry said, “to apologize for the trouble you’d given them. What did you expect? That I’d leave you here all summer, in the exact place where your enemies know where to look? With people that aren’t even your family? In a place you don’t really like, and that is depressingly normal compared to the world you’ve grown to love? Doesn’t that sound a little stupid and contrived to you?” I raised a relieved hand to my head. “Yeah,” I noted, “now that you mention it, who would do something silly like that?
Brandon Sanderson (Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1))
All I ask of you (this is something you can and should do very easily) is that you advise me where I can spend my life without being overwhelmed by the fear and terror I have of being discovered by those who are searching for me; although I know the great love my parents have for me guarantees that I shall be welcomed by them, I am filled with so much shame when I think that I must appear before them in a state different from the one they had counted upon that it seems better to exile myself forever from their sight rather than see their faces and think that they are looking at mine when it is far removed from the chastity they had a right to expect of me.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)
SELFISHNESS VS GREATNESS SELFISHNESS GREATNESS 1. Longing for attention 1. Longing for solutions 2. Will do anything to diminish others 2. Will do anything to value and rescue others 3. Wants to know what is it for her/him to gain 3. Wants to know how to tackle the problem 4. Giving for the sake of recognition 4. Giving for the sake of love and compassion 5. Will give with a higher expectations of gaining something 5. Will give to meet needs with no strings attached 6. Give to create a platform to control others 6. Give to create a place to ease pressure, anxiety and fear 7. Has a judgemental eye towards others 7. Has an eye that sees beyond everything and full of empathy 8. Enjoys a superior position over the vulnerable ones 8. Enjoys to see progress and development 9. Leaves casualties along the way daily 9. Leaves comfort, kindness,peace and joy daily 10. Demands a public gratitude from others 10. Allows others to take their own time to give gratitude
Euginia Herlihy
Dear love, what you expect from me is my expectation from you.
P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
Soon our culture's oldest dreams will be made real. Even the thought of sending a kind of flying craft to the moon is no longer nothing more than a child's fantasy. At this moment in the cities below us, the first mechanical men are being constructed that will have the capability to pilot the ship on its maiden voyage. But no one has asked if this dream we've had for so long will lose its value once it's realized. What will happen when those mechanical men step out of their ship and onto the surface of this moon, which has served humanity for thousands of years as our principal icon of love and madness? When they touch their hands to the ground and perform their relentless analyses and find no measurable miracles, but a dead gray world of rocks and dust? When they discover that it was the strength of millions of boyhood daydreams that kept the moon aloft, and that without them that murdered world will fall, spiraling slowly down and crashing into the open sea?
Dexter Palmer (The Dream of Perpetual Motion)
Relatedness vs. Relationship Observing allows you to stay in a state of relatedness with your parents or other loved ones without getting caught up in their emotional tactics and expectations about how you should be. Relatedness is different from relationship. In relatedness, there’s communication but no goal of having a satisfying emotional exchange. You stay in contact, handle others as you need to, and have whatever interactions are tolerable without exceeding the limits that work for you.
Lindsay C. Gibson (Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents)
Measure your expectations of where someone is and not where you are.
Dr Ikoghene S Aashikpelokhai
Such boldness. He liked her boldness, but the real problem was that she trusted him. amnation was too mild a fate for such a woman. “You want me to say that a gentleman’s honor forbids it. You are longing for me to give you that lie, but I am not honorable, my dear. I am the Traitor Baron, my days are numbered, and those whose loyalty I claim are put in danger.” “Everybody’s days are numbered.” He heard her aunts speaking, heard the toughness and scorn of old women in her tones, and wanted to scare her out of her complaisance. “I have been challenged four times in the last six months, Milly.Millicent Danforth trusted him bodily, morally, logistically, every way a woman could trust a man, and hertrust was a strong aphrodisiac to someone who’d arguably committed treason. He came around the desk and sat back against it without glancing down at her writing. “Millicent, this will not do.” “You should go to bed, then.” “I want to take you to bed with me. I want to keep you in my bed and make passionate love to you until exhaustion claims us both, then rut on you some more when we’ve caught a decent nap.” She wrinkled her nose. “You won’t, though. Why not?” ..."So I take you to bed and romp away a few hours with you and get a child on you. Then we must marry, and you become not the discreet dalliance of a disgraced baron, but his widow. Your social doom is sealed by that fate, and I cannot abide such a thought.”lordship was trying desperately to shock her, while Milly wanted desperately to impress him with her letters. “I will not marry you,” she said. Not for all the e’s, o’s, l’s, and even v’s would she worry him like that. “I am not of an appropriate station, for one thing, and I expect somewhere there’s a rule about baronesses being able to read and write. I confess the romping part piques my curiosity.” He swore softly in French but remained close to her, half leaning, half sitting on the desk.
Grace Burrowes (The Traitor (Captive Hearts, #2))
Scale the shifting tower of coin and what awaits may change from the breathtaking vista of your expectations into terrifying vertigo.
Stewart Stafford
23. I come from a worried people. These people worry and are overly cautious. The worried people are very suggestive and read the side effects on every medication to make sure they experience all of them, even the side effects experienced by the placebo people. If it only happens in males, my female people will figure out a way to have that side effect, too. My people worry out of love, though.
Shelley Brown (Weird Girl Adventures from A to Z)