Quotes on Expect Nothing

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to give it, to comfort them, to hold their hand. But children die how they have been living - in hope. They don't know what's happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand - but you end up needing them to hold yours. With children, you're on your own. Do you understand?

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

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.

If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

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.

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.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

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