Brad Meltzer Quotes

I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Get used to disappointment.

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

Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That's when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.