Disappointment Quotes - Page 24

• The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Pain, Sorrow

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

  Dani Shapiro

  Order, Careers, Rejection

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• Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock. To live well, to be mentally healthy, we must learn to realize that life is a work in process.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Healthy, Preparation, Today

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• Don’t burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Relationship, Grateful, Compassion

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• He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Sadness, Past, Laughing

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• Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.

  Joel Achenbach

  Thinking, Earthquakes, People

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• If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again.

  Brené Brown

  Hurt, Moving, Heart

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.62, Penguin

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• There has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment.

  Henry Flagler

  Grief, Suffering, Obtaining

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• When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

  Dan Millman

  Expectations, World, Release

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• I made a vow to God [in 2010], after so many letdowns and the relationship with my ex, I knew I really didn't want to continue making the same mistakes anymore. Women nowadays, we connect physically too soon without actually getting to know the person. If you don't actually give this person your body and then they let you down, there really isn't a great disappointment; not like it would be if you have already connected physically. I started going on that journey, and I thought to myself, you know what, the next man that I give my body to will be the man that God brought into my life.

  Jessica White

  Mistake, Journey, Giving

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• The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loss, Years, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Education, Children, Book

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

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• Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.

  John Updike

  Sports, Baseball, Fun

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• The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

  Norman Douglas

  Family

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• I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Children, Mean, Parenting

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.504, Everyman's Library

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• It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Knowing, Looks, Littles

  Ellen Glasgow (0101). “The Sheltered Life”, p.199, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Drama, Writing, Grieving

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• Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

  Cyril Connolly

  Education, School, Boys

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Real, Book, People

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• We are all capable of living lives characterized by great joy. Within each of us is an amazing human spirit that is strong enough to overcome pain and disappointment. And no matter what our current situation happens to be, or what beliefs we may currently harbor about ourselves, we can tap into that inner strength and wisdom and move forward to create more joy.

  Salle Merrill Redfield

  Strong, Pain, Live Life

  Salle Merrill Redfield (2009). “Creating a Life of Joy: A Meditative Guide”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

  Glenway Wescott

  Pain, Literature, Endure

  Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Thomas Wolfe (1945). “The Crack-up”

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• I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, School, Race

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• I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

  Eric Bana

  Years, Giving, Three

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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• Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

  Stockard Channing

  Heartbreaking, Casting, Hardest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

  Susan Cain

  Self, Our Society, Belief

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