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Expect Nothing Quotes

Expect nothing. Live frugally. On surprise. become a stranger. To need of pity. Or, if compassion be freely. Given out. Take only enough. Stop short of urge to plead. Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger. Than your own small heart. Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment. With caress unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka. For your soul. Discover the reason why. So tiny human midget. Exists at all. So scared unwise. But expect nothing. Live frugally. On surprise. Alice Walker
Daniel Defoe quote: "Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised"
Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised Daniel Defoe
Kurt Tucholsky quote: "Expect nothing. Today: that is your life."
Expect nothing. Today: that is your life. Kurt Tucholsky
Alice Walker quote: "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. Alice Walker
Frank Leslie quote: "Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever..."
Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony. Frank Leslie
...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”... L. M. Montgomery
Sylvia Plath quote: "I decided to expect nothing from Buddy Willard. If you expect..."
I decided to expect nothing from Buddy Willard. If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. Sylvia Plath
Ayn Rand quote: "Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on..."
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. Ayn Rand
James Hillman quote: "To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing...."
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. James Hillman
Dogen Zenji quote: "If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then..."
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing. Dogen Zenji
I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom. . .To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. Ayn Rand
Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it. James Patterson
Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy. Susan Sontag
For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over. Edgar Cayce
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. Anatole Broyard

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