Disappointment Quotes - Page 36

• Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn't strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment filled me, replacing my rage, but I forced myself to ask the final question I wanted an answer to.

  Jennifer Estep

  Strong, Past, Finals

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• A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my dad said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you

  Miriam Toews

  Uncles, Dad, Week

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.

  George Henry Lewes

  Teacher, Plato, Simple

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.102, London : Smith, Elder and Company

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• Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Regret, Heart, Mean

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.

  Semir Zeki

  Expectations, Brain, Rewards

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• Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hope, Heart, Chill

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• For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

  William Penn

  Heaven, Trials, Faults

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be!

  Margaret Thatcher

  Distance, Ambition, Past

  The Lady's Not For Turning, delivered 10 October 1980, Conservative Party Conference, Brighton

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• We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Joy, Soul, Desire

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (pp. 129-130), 1901.

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• Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

  Matthew Arnold

  New Beginnings, Light, Years

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and soon, I don't doubt. There always has been. There'll be deaths and disappointments and failures. When they come, you meet them.

  James Gould Cozzens

  War, Upset, Doubt

  James Gould Cozzens, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1978). “Just representations: a James Gould Cozzens reader”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

  George C. Lorimer

  God, Bereavement, Temptation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 282), 1895.

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• If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.

  Chuck Barris

  Hurt, Creativity, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.

  Ben Gibbard

  Moving, People, Mind

  "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, People, Stuff

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession
  with personal demands, needs and disappointments?  
  The answer is: Whatever you do, may it benefit everyone.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Self, Needs, Answers

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• Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not, with various blessings for you--blessings which you will know how to value properly, for early disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

  Regina Maria Roche

  Heart, Blessing, Nurse

  Regina Maria Roche (1870). “The Children of the Abbey: A Tale”, p.120

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• The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their dreams didn't come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true. A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Dream, People, Focus

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• Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Grief, Joy, Miracle

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• Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe - a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Real, Ethos, Soul

  "Mundane Magic". lesswrong.com. October 31, 2008.

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• Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.

  Jean Liedloff

  Happiness, Pain, Facts

  Jean Liedloff (1975). “The continuum concept”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• Aiki is the way of the Kami and was born of the will of the Kami. Rise early in the morning to greet the sun. Inhale the breath of heaven and let the cosmos inside. Next breath up the rich vibrance of the earth. Blend these breaths with your own breath and become the breath of life itself. Your mind and body will be gladdened, heartache and disappointment will dissipate and you will be filled with gratitude. The movements of Aikido which unite human being with great nature are all given by Sarutahiko-no-O-Kami. Aikido is Misogi..a purification of ourselves...the way of the universe.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Gratitude, Morning, Heartache

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• We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!

  James MacDonald

  Anticipation, Problem, Gods Will

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.103, Moody Publishers

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• The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous, and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

  James E. Faust

  Children, Parent, Depth

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• I DECLARE God is going before me making crooked places straight. He has already lined up the right people, the right opportunities and solutions to problems I haven't had. No person, no sickness, no disappointment, can stop His plan. What he promised will come to pass.

  Joel Osteen

  Opportunity, People, Problem

  Joel Osteen (2012). “I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life”, p.80, Hachette UK

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