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“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume tha...”
“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”
“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that prec...”
“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
“At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.”
“I had nothing to fear from my father.Except his disappointment.Which was no small thing.”
“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
“You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.”
“Its common to reject or punish yourself when youve been rejected by others. When you experience disappointment from the way your family or others treat you, thats the time to take special care of y...”
“Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.”
“When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder.”
“Let go of the pain. Dwell on positive thoughts.”
“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping...”
“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
“Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure of guilt; many years ago, he had taken the passion he felt for Susan and folded it in half, so...”
“When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.”
“(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.”
“I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking...”
“I embraced a cloud,but when I soaredit rained.”
