John Walcott Quotes

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

I don't have any expectations of anything.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

He who awaits much can expect little.

I don't have any expectations.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

Something will turn up.

I just never count on anything. You can't.

I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.

I have hope. I have no expectations.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimism for anything, because the other option is no fun.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.