Hilary Swank Quotes

I don't want to make this sound negative at all, but in the best way possible I freaking give up. I give up. You can't try and make your life perfect. I'm just trying to have a good time, and I'm just trying to appreciate the things that I have around me. I give up on the 'dream' dream. I think that it's all a dream. I think it's all wonderful and terrible. And I give up in the nicest way.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

I have realized that there is no point making plans, because it'll never end; you're never going to win the world. I thought at one point in time I am going to do that, but you cannot. So I am just enjoying myself.

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

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

I have no expectations. None at all.

I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.

One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.

This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn't working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly.

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.