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  • When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.

    Warrior   Journey   Wind  
  • I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.

    Marriage   Believe   Mean  
    George Washington (1997). “Writings”
  • My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

    " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20
  • There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.10, Open Road Media
  • We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship - we don't want this relationship to go out of control.

    "Russian premier arrives in Washington to thaw Kosovo chill". www.cnn.com. July 26, 1999.
  • How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!

    Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.50
  • Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.

  • A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

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

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

    Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
  • Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

    Expectations   Joy   Risk  
    William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229
  • Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

    Hope   Pain   Excess  
    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.426
  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

    c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).
  • We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

    Hope   Wisdom   Fear  
  • Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

    Valedictory address to medical graduates at Harvard University on March 10, 1858. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume LVIII, No. 8, p. 158, March 25, 1858.
  • There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

    Orison Swett Marden (2015). “He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality”, p.37, e-artnow
  • Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

  • One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience, in the looks of those who surround us. One would wish to find the strength to beautify one's thoughts and to purify one's heart. It is everyone's hope and expectation to live in serenity and to plod along in transparency: the palms of the hands patiently directed towards heaven, at the heart of all this modernity.

    Heart   Men   Mirrors  
    Tariq Ramadan (2009). “Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity”, p.19, Kube Publishing Ltd
  • Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

    Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.22
  • Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

    J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 7 (1859) 'Apophthegms contained in Resuscitatio' no. 36
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