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1. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

- Stephen W Hawking

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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinar

2. Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

- Oscar Wilde

Tags: Expectations | Sad Love | Moving On | Love Quotes for Her |

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - I heard what you said. I’m not the silly roman

3. I heard what you said.

I’m not the silly romantic you think.

I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars.

I don’t want gemstones or gold.

I have those things already.

I want … a steady hand.
A kind soul.
I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe.
I want to love, and be loved.

- Shana Abe

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - What I want is to be needed. What I need is to b

4. What I want is to be needed.

What I need is to be indispensable to somebody.

Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention.

Somebody addicted to me.

A mutual addiction.

- Chuck Palahniuk

Tags: Expectations | Love Quotes for Her | Addiction |

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - On Earning: Never depend on single income. Make inve

5. On Earning: Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

On Spending: If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

On Savings: Do not save what is left AFTER SPENDING, but spend what is left AFTER SAVING.

On Taking Risk: Never Test the depth of the river with both feet.

On Investment: Do not put all eggs in one basket.

On Expectations: Honesty is a very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people.

- Warren Buffet

Tags: Life | Expectations | Risk | River |

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - Oh Lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first da

6. Oh Lovers!

Be careful in those dangerous first days!

Once you've brought breakfast in bed, you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

- Milan Kundera

Tags: Life | Expectations | Love Quotes for Her |

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - In life, you don’t get what you deserve. You g

7. In life, you don’t get what you deserve.

You get what you negotiate.

Tags: Negotiation | Life | Expectations | Deserve |

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - Having someone do certain things for you is like get

8. Having someone do certain things for you is like getting someone to chew your food for you.

It might be easier to swallow but it loses all its flavor...

And you want the flavor!

- Ze Frank

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - A secret to happiness is letting every situation be

9. A secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - Never Compare your wife to another woman. If the oth

10. Never Compare your wife to another woman. If the other woman was good for you. Allah would have given her to you.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - It takes an advanced sense of humor. I don't expe

11. It takes an advanced sense of humor.

I don't expect everybody to understand.

- Michael Scott

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - Boundaries in relationships can be much more difficu

12. Boundaries in relationships can be much more difficult to create and honor. And if its a boundary that someone does not inherently wants or understands - then there maybe huge problems because that boundary can just be crossed again and again.

- Dr Margaret Rutherford

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - If Nike opened a Hotel, I think we would be able to

13. If Nike opened a Hotel, I think we would be able to guess pretty accurately what it would be like.
If Hyatt came out with sneakers, we'd have no clue, because Hyatt doesn't have a brand. They have a Logo. If you swapped the logos, I would'nt know if I am in a Hyatt or a Hilton. No Brand. When you have a brand, you have made promise to people and people have expectations.

- Seth Godin

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - How beautiful it is to stay silent when someone expe

14. How beautiful it is to stay silent when someone expects you to be very angry.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - Feel sorry for the unfortunate men who missed out on

15. Feel sorry for the unfortunate men who missed out on a good girl because they were brainwashed by the standards of beauty taught to them by the society.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - If you think the grass is greener on the other side,

16. If you think the grass is greener on the other side, it's because it's fertilized with bullshit.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful

17. The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would like it. I'm thrilled to observe other people, but I don't want to be in their shoes. If I got there, I might find it not quite what I expected, and it would break my illusion, and I don't want that!

- Marti Webb

Tags: Grass is Greener | Walk In My Shoes | Illusion | Expectations |

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

18. Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectat

19. Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

- Princess Diana

Tags: Be Kind | Expectations | Karma | You Reap What You Sow |

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecti

20. Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

- Criss Jami

Tags: Be Kind | Selfless | Expectations |

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - Either you know what you want and then you don't get

21. Either you know what you want and then you don't get what you want, or you get what you want and then you don't know what you want.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that

22. Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.

- Jalal Ad Din Rumi

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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - If you expect nothing from somebody you are never di

23. If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

- Sylvia Plath

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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you ca

24. When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

- Donald Miller

Tags: Expectations | Imperfection | Perfectionism | Be Yourself |

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - I’m not in this world to live up to your expectati

25. I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

- Bruce Lee

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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - You are most powerful when you are most silent. Peop

26. You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths.

Silence?

No.

- Alison McGhee

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my e

27. I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.

- Bill Watterson

Tags: Expectations | Life Is Easy |

28. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

- Stephen W Hawking

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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - If you're going to say what you want to say, you're

29. If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

- Roberto Bolaño

Tags: Expectations | Talking Too Much | Silence Speaks Louder Than Words |

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - You can't expect everyone to have the same dedicatio

30. You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

- Jeff Kinney

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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

31. To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

- Jane Austen

Tags: Expectations | Wishes | Wishful Thinking | Hopeful |

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to st

32. You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

- Lisa Kleypas

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - There were two ways to be happy: improve your realit

33. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

- Jodi Picoult

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expecta

34. He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

- Robert Jordan

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl i

35. I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.

- Rachel Cohn

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since t - That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that t

36. That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

- Lev Grossman