„Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.“

„Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.“

—  Paulo Coelho, книга The Devil and Miss Prym

Источник: The Devil and Miss Prym

„Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.“

—  Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969

7:2457.
Lord Meher (1986)

„Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything“

—  Katharine Hepburn film, stage, and television actress 1907 - 2003

Источник: Me: Stories of My Life

„Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.“

—  Dorothy L. Sayers English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer 1893 - 1957

Essays, The Other Six Deadly Sins (1941)

„The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.“

—  Jorge Luis Borges Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature 1899 - 1986

"Baruch Spinoza", as translated in Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Marrano of Reason (1989) by Yirmiyahu Yovel
Контексте: Time carries him as the river carries
A leaf in the downstream water.
No matter. The enchanted one insists
And shapes God with delicate geometry.
Since his illness, since his birth,
He goes on constructing God with the word.
The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.

„Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.“

—  Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963

„When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.“

—  John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900

Widely attributed on the Internet to John Ruskin; see this Google search https://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=%2B%22When+love+and+skill+work+together%2C+expect+a+masterpiece.%22+%2B%22John+Ruskin%22+-%22Charles+Reade%22&oq=%2B%22When+love+and+skill+work+together%2C+expect+a+masterpiece.%22+%2B%22John+Ruskin%22+-%22Charles+Reade%22&gs_l=serp.12...143064.148395.0.150598.2.2.0.0.0.0.108.196.1j1.2.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..0.0.0.JURsIFvRl34 for thousands of pages containing the quote AND "John Ruskin" but NOT "Charles Reade".

This is actually from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade.
Misattributed

„Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.“

—  Ann Brashares, книга 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

Источник: 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

„When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.“

—  Charles Reade British writer 1814 - 1884

Источник: Put Yourself in His Place (1870), CHAPTER V

„Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.“

—  Randall Jarrell poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914 - 1965

“An Unread Book”, p. 40
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)

„Monetary policy decisions tend to regress toward the mean and to be inertial—and hence biased in just the same way that adaptive expectations are biased relative to rational expectations. But errors like that, while systematic, will generally be small and will tend to shrink over time. And, in return, the system builds in natural safeguards against truly horrendous mistakes.“

—  Alan Blinder economist 1945

Источник: Central Banking in Theory and Practice. 1998, p. 31

„Love is always bestowed as a gift!
freely, willingly, and without expectation….
We don't love to be loved, we love to love“

—  Nicholas Sparks, книга True Believer

Источник: True Believer

„Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.“

—  Luanne Rice American author 1955

Источник: Beach Girls

„Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.“

—  Leo Buscaglia Motivational speaker, writer 1924 - 1998

„It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.“

—  Dennis Lehane, книга A Drink Before the War

Источник: A Drink Before the War

„As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.“

—  Junot Díaz, книга The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Источник: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

„What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, книга Dear John

Источник: Dear John

„Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.“

—  Valerie Solanas American radical feminist and writer. Attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol. 1936 - 1988

Источник: SCUM MANIFESTO (1967), p. 11.

„Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.“

—  Langston Hughes American writer and social activist 1902 - 1967

Источник: The Collected Poems