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Expectation

(noun) The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

45 QUOTES
"Real love begins where nothing is expected in return."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Have no expectations doesn't mean have no boundaries."
— Caylor Parish
"Expectations are the mental prison. Free your mind with no expectations."
— Aaron Bell
"If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Expectations keep us in a victim role. It keeps us blaming & stuck."
— Elezabeth Symond
"You can change someone by loving them more the way they expect."
— Sophie Smith
"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."
— Jane Austen
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
— Voltaire
"All thoughts start from emotions."
— Leonardo da Vinci
"Have no expectations is an expectation."
— Elezabeth Symond
"Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be."
— Thomas Jefferson
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
— Oscar Wilde
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