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Love is the oxygen of life; it’s what we all want and need most.

Good is not good when better is expected.

It becomes difficult to understand a person when they don’t want you to.

If you expect nothing from somebody, you are never disappointed. – Sylvia Plath

Life’s not about me; it’s about us.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.- Mother Teresa

Expectations are the termites of relationships. – Henry Winkler

The biggest challenge in relationships is expectations.

Sometimes we create our heartbreaks through expectation.

Relationship Expectations Quotes

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person. Gloria Steinem

It doesn’t matter who hurt you or broke you down. What matters is who made you smile again.

Expectations Are Dangerous When They Are Both Too High And Unformed.

I’m not telling you it is going to be easy- I am telling you it is going to be worth it. – Art Williams

As you think so will you be! Since you can’t genuinely encounter someone else, you can experience them in your mind.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. – Stephen Hawking

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ― Alexander Pope

Do what you did at the beginning of the relationship and there won’t be an end.- Anthony Robbins

Every relationship has ups and downs, you should never expect perfection from somebody.

Relationships end too soon because people stop putting in the same effort to keep you, as they did to win you.

It is of reasonable incentive to figure out how to do such as yourself. Since you should invest such a great amount of energy in yourself, you should get some fulfillment out of the relationship.

Expectation feeds frustration. It is an unhealthy attachment to people, things, and outcomes we wish we could control; but don’t. – Steve Maraboli

I blame movies for my high expectations in relationships.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ― Donald Miller

There is no challenge strong enough to destroy your marriage as long as you are both willing to stop fighting against each other and start fighting for each other. – Dave Willis

Expectations are the root of all heartache. – William Shakespeare

When we love completely we feel alive, but when we lose love, the pain is so great that most people settle on connection, the crumbs of love.

You will find many people who will share an umbrella with you. But you need to spend your life with the one who will walk in the rain with you.

I don’t ask or expect much from people, just loyalty and honesty.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. ― Bruce Lee

He can’t read your mind. So take a moment to let him know how you feel.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true. – Bill Gates

Every problem is a gift – without problems, we would not grow.

When you give something, it stays like that till the end of time. The love you choose to take away will be lost soon.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it? ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.- Carl Jung

Sometimes you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.

You’ve got to find a way to constantly improve the amount of joy, passion, and nourishment that’s happening within you and for the person you’re in a relationship with.

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. — Brian Tracy

The secret of happiness is low expectations. – Barry Schwartz

To solve the problem you have to recognize your share of responsibility. If you only blame the other person, you will never solve it.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God, people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

Expectations are a future disappointment waiting to happen. – Unknown

The only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give and not a place that you go to take.

Whether it is a friendship or a relationship, all bonds are built on trust. Without it, you have nothing.

You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong, and harmonious conditions with ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought. — Charles F. Haanel

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus

There is no joy involved in following others’ expectations of yourself. – Miriam Toews

A relationship is like a house. When a light bulb burns out you do not go and buy a new house, you fix the light bulb.

Some women can’t find a Good Man cause they’re too busy looking for a Perfect Man…

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

A real friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.- Walter Winchell

Apologizing does not mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.

Expectations are the silent killer of joy. – Unknown

The number one rule is: my lover comes first. If you’re in love, you put their feelings and needs before your own.

There are ways to be happy: Improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.- Tennessee Williams

Learn to love without any conditions, help without any expectations, and live without any regrets.

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No. ― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow to the Sea

Don’t talk, just act. Don’t say, just show. Don’t promise, just prove.

Expectations are the cause of all suffering. – Buddha

What makes a relationship work is things in common, what makes it passionate is that things are very different.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. – Carl Jung

It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations. – Danny Boyle

Forget all the reasons why it won’t work. And believe the one reason why it will

We don’t meet people by accident. They are meant to cross our paths for a reason.

Expectations are the death of contentment. – Unknown

Whenever you conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. – William James

Silly me, expecting too much from people again.

The one who loves the least controls the relationship.

Expectations are the enemy of happiness. – Unknown

We were promised to suffer. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course, it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.- Tony Robbins

The greatest relationships are the ones you never expected to be in.

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

Expect more from yourself than from others. Because expectations from others hurt a lot, while expectations from yourself inspire a lot. That’s life.

Love is more than physical interest but about emotional interest that develops through time and togetherness.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be. ― Stephen

Nobody can hurt me without my permission. Mahatma Gandhi

Expectations are the prison you put yourself in. – Unknown

You can’t just give up on someone because the situation is not ideal. Great relationships are not great because they have no problems. They are great because both people care enough about the other person to find a way to make it work.

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.

If you would love, love, and be loveable. — Benjamin Franklin

Keep your expectations high on achievement and low on people.

Life is nothing without Love and Care. Love everyone but don’t except from others. Because it’s a feeling, not a dealing.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations. ― Bill Watterson

Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.- Oprah

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. — Carl W. Buechner

Don’t blame people for disappointing you, blame yourself for expecting too much from them.

What defines a relationship is the work that’s involved to maintain it, and it’s constantly changing.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The best feeling in the world is knowing that you mean something to someone.

The way we communicate with others and ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations. – Warren Buffett

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. — Joseph F. Newton Men

Explain your anger, don’t express it and you will immediately open the door to solutions instead of arguments.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you won’t be disappointed. ― Patricia McCormick, Cut

The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.- Neale Donald Walsch

I hope you do not let anyone else’s expectations direct the course of your life.– Julianne Donaldson

All relationships go through hell, real ones get through it.

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It’s because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they’re already experiencing.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. — Swedish Proverb

Expectation is the root of all heartache. – William Shakespeare

A strong relationship is choosing to love each other even in those moments when you struggle to like each other.

If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
― Roberto Bolaño, The Insufferable Gaucho

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu

Life was easier when you stopped caring and when you stopped expecting things to get better.– Cora Carmack

A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.

It’s your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

Avoid individuals who attempt to put down their aspirations. Few individuals consistently do that, yet the truly incredible causes you to accept that you can also get extraordinary.

Once you give up expectations, you have learned to live.

All relationships go through bad times, but real relationships get through bad times.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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