Realistic Expectations Quotes
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do what experience tells you to do and what your nerves let you do.
Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.
There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards but because they are men.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces marriage is also three meals a day sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.
Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems not even saints or sages.
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.
The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.
Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.
A pint can't hold a quart-if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
It wasn't so much that Lola Plum believed she'd learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just realistic about life.
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.
Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
