277 quotes found
“Altruism is for thosewho can't endure their desires.There's a worldas ambiguous as a moan,a pleasure moanour earnest neighborsmight think a crime.It's where we could live.I'll say I love you,Which ...”
“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.”
“...Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them, exclaimed Anne. You maynt get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to th...”
“I was sixteen, and I honestly believed I was due a love story.”
“She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, youre inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expe...”
“How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place.”
“Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.”
“One always expects something else.”
“But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;”
“Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.”
“Even the ones who love you most will let you down. They are the ones who will disappoint you more because your expectations of them are higher. When you feel like they have let you down, you need t...”
“People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.”
“Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were the...”
“In hindsight, the grand hero ideal she always thought he encompassed chipped away and all that remained was a cheap imitation. He embodied everything shed hidden from in her adolescence. Boyfriends...”
“You said you were a fairy princessYou said you were a shooting starYou said we'd go to Bora BoraNow look at where the fuck we are”
“I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of lifes many disappointments.”
“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.”
“Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.”
“As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.”
“The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.”
