Julia Glass Quotes

There is a tendency to overestimate the positive things in our lives and underestimate the possibility of negative things

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

I don't have any expectations.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

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.

You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

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.

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).

I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.