277 quotes found
“I have never taken sides, never leaped wholeheartedly into one scale or the other; nor do I realize disappointments, provided they are severe, until the occasion is long past. Yet I am ruled by my ...”
“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”
“This is what storytelling gets you. You make things up that aren't real, and then get upset when they don't turn out as expected.”
“Ah, today is not really a good day, but my afterthought suggests it is, since I have had the chance to learn that life cannot be exemplary all the time. It is good to be taken aback once in a while...”
“You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that' is disappointed with you.”
“One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetimes disappointments.”
“Sometimes what we don't wish for is more powerful than what we do.”
“Is this what all the years of schooling were for? To prepare me for this Sense of being stuck in the middle?What was the point? No one said I was going to be this sad.No one said I would still be c...”
“You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confrontmuch sorrow and disappointment.He gazed at me with increasing frankness.I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.”
“Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. If things dont go as planned or if you face failure. Failure is extremely difficult to handle, but those that do com...”
“Dwelling on a disappointing situation is like walking through drying cement; eventually you will get stuck. Instead make a mental note, picked yourself up and continued living life. #forward”
“We aim to bemen wholl makeour mothers proud,but we end upmaking them cry,and are onlyslightly betterthan our fathers,at best”
“From across her husband's open grave I had thought she exuded a certain foxy mystique, but now, to my disappointment, she looked just like every other mother I knew.”
“The inaugural morning at Merston High was officially over. It was no longer a mysterious place in Melody's imagination, filled with endless possibilities and hooks on which to hang hopes for a bett...”
“I do not allow anybody to hurt me without my permission, because, I believe in no expectations, no disappointments, no hurting myself, just being me and my imaginative self. Trust me because, when ...”
“Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.”
“I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanatio...”
“I rode up, walked past a few miles of wallpaper that was someone's revenge for life's disappointments.”
“I have always lived in the present, accepted the misfortunes, made peace with the disappointments, delighted in its little blessings, found happiness in whatever the present moment has offered and ...”
“I'm the poster child for Sister-Zoned. My face pops up on so many pseudo family trees, I could start my own forest.”
