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If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Heraclitus
Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level...
Eileen Caddy
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
Marcel Proust
I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
Mary Decker Slaney
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
William Hazlitt
We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.
Alexander Herzen
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
Stevie Wonder
When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen.
John Pierpont Morgan
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau
We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.
Paulo Coelho
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
Jodi Picoult
When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
Peter Wastholm