Expect Nothing Quotes (page 2)

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• expectation
• surprise
• surprising

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it. Malcolm Forbes

• blessed
• disappointment
• expectation

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Jonathan Swift

• blessed
• disappointment
• expectation

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. Alexander Pope

• expectation
• experience
• negativity

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. Ram Dass

• sympathy
• expectation
• profound

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. Ivan Turgenev

• expectation
• fear
• free

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. Nikos Kazantzakis

• expectation
• enough
• seemed

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough. Conrad Veidt

• expectation
• come
• everything

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected. Norton Juster

• expectation
• end
• saying

Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say), there shall be no check to my genius from beginning to end. Jane Austen

• memorial
• expectation
• together

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• expectation
• logic
• behaved

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect. Paulo Coelho

• hope
• expectation
• popular

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. Arnold H. Glasow

• expectation
• evil
• misfortunes

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• happy
• relationship
• gratitude

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have. Dennis Prager

• house
• door
• end

The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing. Philip K. Dick