Joyce Meyer Quotes

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Life is not always what we think it is.

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

What you sees, is what you gets.

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.

Before you go through with an experience, think about what you expect it to feel like. Once you've experienced it, reflect on whether your expectations differed from reality.

You are not guaranteed to be part of that story if you don't perform.

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

Things are always different from what they might be.

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.