Quotes of: Life-expectancy Keyword

Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at any moment--that being alive is important, because ju...

Player One: What Is to Become of Us

If there is one thing I can pass on from my humbling experiences in life, thus far, I will tell you this, the next time someone tells you "the absence of expectations is the absence of disappointment, do not listen. Have expectations. Keep them great...

Pandora Poikilos

When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver’s seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are the one. Expect great outcomes. Expect that you are the best candida...

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

The lesson here is that high expectations can be counter-productive. We probably can do more to affect the quality of our lives by controlling our expectations than we can by doing virtually anything else. The blessing of modest expectations is that ...

Barry Schwartz

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

First Lord's Fury

Life was easier when you stopped caring, when you stopped expecting things to get better.

Finding It

Giving without expectation leads to receiving without limitation.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

The most beautiful things in life happen, when they are least expected.

Sky Beyond the Clouds

The pleasure is there; between your expectations and regrets.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

Snow

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

When Demons Walk

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

K.L. Toth

Don't expect to see positive changes in your life if you surround yourself with negative people.

Robert Tew

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

Cate Blanchett

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

E. W. Howe

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

Arabella Weir

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Brad Grey

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

Ezra Taft Benson

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

Roger Bannister

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

Ron Chernow

The measure of life is not by success you achieve, but by the donation you made without expectation to receive.

Debasish Mridha