Jodi Picoult Quotes

Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

Having no expectations is a really good thing.

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

Don't place expectations on someone. Enjoy the time you have together, and let it go where it goes.

To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.

Live without expectations and there will be no frustration.

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

If we could just trust the moment that we're in and live it in the way that you best can embrace it, it would be much better for all of us.

I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

no expectations, no disappointments!

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

So somebody comes along and gets to me. They get me angry or uptight or they awaken some desire in me, wow am I delighted. They got me. And that’s my work on myself. If I am angry with you because your behavior doesn’t fill my model of how you should be, that’s my problem for having models. No expectations, no upset. If you are a liar and a cheat, that’s your Karma. If I’m cheated, that’s my work on myself.

There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to results.

Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of your soul by living with reality because you don't expect anything anymore. Which is a weird paradox.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.