Whatever you think someone else should give to you, you need to be able to give yourself first.
Jay ShettyRead
Expectations are not based on reality. They are observations, expected realities, or beliefs of what you think will happen. Expectations of others stop us from acting as our highest selves and reaching our full potential.
Interpretation
Expectations can distort our perception of reality and limit our potential.
This quote by Jay Shetty emphasizes that expectations are often personal beliefs or observations rather than true reflections of reality. When we allow the expectations of others to dictate our actions, we may hinder our growth and fail to reach our maximum capabilities, thereby preventing us from becoming the best versions of ourselves.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire self-improvement.
Whatever you think someone else should give to you, you need to be able to give yourself first.
We think we have to become something else to be satisfied, not realizing that being ourselves is the only thing that can satisfy us.
I see my whole 20s as a massive experiment. So were my teens. I think the problem is that we're not encouraged to experiment; we're encouraged to decide and choose, be singular and focused. You can't be that until you experiment. You don't know what's going to work until you try it.
If we don't choose to intentionally and consciously slow down and stop being in a rush, your body and mind will force you to do it anyway.
When I became a monk, it didn't feel like I was giving up that much. I actually felt like I had made the best decision, because anyone who hadn't focused on building themselves up was the one losing out.
Real love is figuring out how someone wants to be loved and loving them in that way.
I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage.
I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.
Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.
Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
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