മൂത്തവര്‍ ചൊല്ലും മുതുനെല്ലിക്കകള്‍- Expectations

This time the search key word was expectations, and this is what I found:

'Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed' was the ninth beatitude. Alexander Pope

'Expecting the world to treat you fairly
because you are a good person 
is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you 
because you are a vegetarian.' ~ Dennis Wholey

'To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.' ~ Joan Didien

Quotable quotes അഥവാ വിവരമുള്ളവര്‍ പറഞ്ഞത് : Part 1

കുറെ നാളായി കരുതുന്നു, സ്നേഹത്തെപ്പറ്റി വിവരമുള്ളവര്‍ എന്തു പറയുന്നു എന്നൊരു ഗവേഷണം നടത്തണമെന്ന് ...വഴക്കം പോലെ വിക്കി അമ്മാവനൊട് ചോദിച്ചു ആദ്യം....  മലയാളത്തില്‍ " "സ്നേഹം" തിരയൂ" എന്നവശ്യപ്പെട്ടപ്പോള്‍ "താളുകളുടെ ഉള്ളടക്കത്തില്‍ നിങ്ങള്‍ തിരഞ്ഞ വാക്കുമായി യോജിക്കുന്ന ഫലങ്ങള്‍ ഒന്നും തന്നെയില്ലെ"ന്നു ടിയാന്‍... 
എന്നാപ്പിന്നെ ആംഗലേയത്തിലാവാം തിരച്ചില്‍.... ഫലങ്ങള്‍ ചിലത് ...വായിക്കാന്‍ എളുപ്പത്തിനു തരം തിരിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു...

"പഞ്ചാര"

• I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  
• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• For you see, each day I love you more; Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.~Rosemonde Gerard

 Politically incorrect but "ഇടിവെട്ട്"

• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.  ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949
• Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.~ Harlan Ellison, Title of book (1968)
  
• Love is the victim's response to the rapist.~ Ti-Grace Atkinson
  
• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. ~Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary
  

"Food for ചിന്ത"  

• Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.... And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.~The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4 - 8 
  
• Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. ~The Bible, Song of Solomon 8:7
  
• The more you judge, the less you love. ~Honore de Balzac
  
• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.~ Victor Hugo