You know the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations and then you have to adjust those expectations and it can be a very unnerving confusing time.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity the marriage is more important than fidelity.

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.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy healthy and rewarding life.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life and you'll find that you have more of it.