Patricia Briggs Quotes

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

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.

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

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

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.

I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn't much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But - what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn't like it

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.

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.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

I have realised that life is never perfect.

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.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Get used to disappointment.

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.