„Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.“
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— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
Lord Meher (1986), 7:2457.

„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
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„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

„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
Context: 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.
"Baruch Spinoza", as translated in Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Marrano of Reason (1989) by Yirmiyahu Yovel

„When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.“
— John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900
Misattributed, 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.

„Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.“
— Ann Brashares, 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows, 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

„When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.“
— Charles Reade British writer 1814 - 1884
Put Yourself in His Place (1870), CHAPTER V

„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
Central Banking in Theory and Practice. 1998, p. 31
„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
The Third Book of Criticism (1969), “An Unread Book”, p. 40

„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