A Quote by Alexandra David-Neel

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

Alexandra David-Neel

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Alexandra David-Neel
Belgian - Writer
October 24, 1868 - September 8, 1969

How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a card saying I really hope you like your nothing and lie awake worrying that the nothing I got you was the right color nothing you always anted? Have a heart!

Hilary McKay

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

Eric Maisel

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

James Hillman

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

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker

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

Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

Swami Vivekananda

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

Bill Willingham

I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I'm going to do once I'm out on stage.

Jay Mohr

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

Lady Violet

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

Dogen

When we put too much hope in a candidate or a party we set ourselves up for disappointment. When I see a poster with [Barak] Obama's image with the word "hope" under it, something in me cringes - our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness, the old hymn goes, all other ground is sinking sand.

Shane Claiborne

Hope for everything, expect nothing.

Darren Criss

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

Benjamin Franklin

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

Dorothy L. Sayers

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

Darren Criss

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