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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. -- Alice Walker
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it. -- Malcolm Forbes
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. -- Alexander Pope
Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing. -- Lawrence Fagg
Seek to give much -- expect nothing. -- Jonathan Goforth
Expect nothing. Today: that is your life. -- Kurt Tucholsky
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something. -- Bill Parcells
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing. -- Sophie Swetchine
If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed. -- Sylvia Plath
If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. -- Tonya Hurley
Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to. -- Barry Sanders
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. -- Arnold H. Glasow
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed. -- Laurence Overmire
Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything... -- Harry Houdini
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. -- Ayn Rand
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Jonathan Swift
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened. -- Iris Apfel
When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing. -- Darren Criss
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. -- James Hillman
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing. -- Henry Miller
Invest in yourself first. Expect nothing from no one and be willing to work for everything. -- Tony Gaskins
Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony. -- Frank Leslie
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. -- Ivan Turgenev
People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking. -- Marilyn Manson
I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect. -- Sandra Bullock
At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be. -- Susanne Bier
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing. -- Dogen
Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control. -- Eric Maisel
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. -- Ram Dass
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. -- E. W. Howe
There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares. -- Dolly Wells
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything. -- Katharine Hepburn
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. -- Anatole Broyard
Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it. -- James Patterson
I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return. -- Muhammad Ali
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over. -- Edgar Cayce
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier. -- Anthony Hopkins
I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Hope for everything, expect nothing. -- Darren Criss
Expect nothing. Do your work. Celebrate! -- Jules Olitski
Expect nothing and life will be velvet. -- Lisa Gardner
Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised -- Daniel Defoe
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected. -- Norton Juster
You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing. -- Dalai Lama
Happy are those who expect nothing; they won't be disappointed -- Abel
Nothing ever turns out the way we expect, good or bad. -- Matthew Moy
When you give, expect nothing from people and everything from Allah. -- Omar Suleiman
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes -- Miguel de Cervantes
You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing. -- Aimee Bender
Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect. -- Paulo Coelho
Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be. -- Joan Didion
I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus. -- Hugh Jackman
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety. -- Alexandra David-Neel
The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream. -- Christopher Pike
Life is nothing but surprises. Even our tragedies turn out different than we expect. -- Marty Rubin
No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well. -- Anthony Hopkins
"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change." -- Charles Dickens
If we fear nothing and radiate love, we can expect good things to come. -- Peace Pilgrim
The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing. -- Allen Shawn
Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by. -- George Washington
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. -- Lawrence Durrell
Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing. -- Anne Desclos
Nothing is quite what you expect with Gucci. I'm just happy to be a part of their adventure. -- Jared Leto
We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all. -- John H. Lienhard
If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet. -- Lisa Gardner
The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect. -- Sara Gruen
The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army. -- H. H. Asquith
If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens -- J. J. Watt
Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up. -- William Wrigley, Jr.
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!! -- Benjamin Franklin
If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned. -- Robert Kiyosaki
If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all! -- Ernie J Zelinski
A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn. -- Arthur Dean
Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain. -- Francois Fenelon
We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible. -- Justin Martyr
Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven. -- Saint Patrick
It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction. -- Isaac Asimov
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it. -- Ruth Bernhard
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. -- Erich Fromm
It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you expect; and if anything can go right it will and at the best possible moment. -- John C. Maxwell
We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that. -- Noah Baumbach
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. -- Richard Dawkins
We expect a horse race, ... The reality is that competition drives all innovation. Intel did nothing with its 386 chip for five years until AMD introduced its own version in 1991. -- Lou Dobbs
Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end. -- Jane Austen
Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy. -- Susan Sontag
Another ten points from Gryffindor," said Snape. "I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room. -- J. K. Rowling
When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift. -- Michael J. Sullivan
Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes. -- Ellen G. White
When it comes to how much attention something gets or how much attention it draws, I really kind of just try to expect nothing at this point. Whatever it turns into, it turns into. -- Tyler Hoechlin
God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion. -- Bill Johnson
Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour -- Sri Chinmoy

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