Rajneesh Quotes

He who awaits much can expect little.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

False expectations take away joy.

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

Any expectation is what pain is.

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.

Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it!

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

You can't always get what you want.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

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

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.