We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.

I've learned that I have to stop equating saying yes with being a good person. I think I am being good when I say yes to — Karin Rahbek, Do I Have To Be A Mother?: A Childfree Woman's Struggle with Doubt and Loneliness

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't let others expectations direct the course of your life. — Julianne Donaldson, Edenbrooke

$To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator. — Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life$

Don't you wanna be a great baseball player?” He sighed back into the wall. “I want to be a great man, Fielding.” And so — Tiffany McDaniel, The Summer that Melted Everything

Living is a constant process of debunking our romantic notions of how our personal life will unfold. Reality oftentimes — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

For nearly four weeks, his family had been walking on eggshells around him, expecting him to fall apart at any moment an — Nicola Sinclair, Promise

You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll eve — Scott Simpson

In addition to being statistically unlikely, perfectly fulfilled expectations are boring. We assume that we, in our infi — Clara Bensen, No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering

When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A man must know the expectations of his woman and a woman must know the expectations of her man. — Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

Behind every "I don't expect anything from you",there are buried expectations. — Wordions

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