Expectations:

"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."

"Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise."

"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."

"People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart."

:Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."

"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."

"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."

"Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest. "

Forgiveness:

"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

"Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever."

"Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves."

"We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."

Strength:

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do. "
Eleanor Roosevelt

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. "
Elbert Hubbard

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. "
Thomas A. Edison

 Foot Prints

One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was
walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the
sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene,
he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one
belonging to him, and the other to the Lord.When the
last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked
back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that
many times along the path there was only one set of
footprints.

He also noticed that it happened at the
very lowest and saddest times in his life. This really
bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it.
'Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you,
you'd walk with me all of the way. But I have noticed
that during the most troublesome times in my life, there
is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why
when I needed you most you would leave me.

The Lord replied,
"My precious, precious child,
I love you and I would never leave you.
During your time of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of footprints, it was then
that I carried you."

ok well there u go...ill put more up..bye!