Quotes of: Life-expectancy Keyword

While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas,...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in that men fight for things a...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

The purest moment, tranquil hour of Earth's expectancy. We lay on the soft rose sands beside the sleeping sea in happy land of fragrant meadows I dreamed a dream of. The whisper of the tide, the sighing of the trees. You gentle silver song births my ...

Oksana Rus

I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing ...

Colleen Houck

Think only of what you desire, and expect only what you desire, even when the very contrary seems to be coming into your life. Make it a point to have definite results in mind at all times. Permit no thinking to be aimless. Every aimless thought is t...

Christian D. Larson

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Captain Newman, M. D

disappointment is devastating, even if it’s something that you didn’t really expect to occur.

Dangled Carat

Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt.

The Dermis Probe

What does he expect from a law student? I'm hard-wired to find loopholes.

Daynight

I want everyone to stop telling me to lower my expectations.

The Gravity of Birds

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Great Expectations

If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.

Ghostwritten

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

Brother Odd

Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know what to expect when you're in the studio.

Benny Blanco

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

Tina Weymouth

The picture is grainy. But that’s to be expected when photographing bread.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

One always expects something else.

Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

The Joy Luck Club

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

Killosophy