All Quotes By Tag: Disappointment

“Lindy, you’re not disappointed with Tim. You’re disappointed by your own expectations.”

“While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of “being,” my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate.”

“Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.”

“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

“Sometimes our heroes let us down.”

“[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar.”

“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ”

“It comes down to ‘fear’ and ‘faith’. ‘Fear’ of what stands in front of me. ‘Faith’ in believing that the resources I possess can handle what stands in front of me. If I stop at the former, I will change nothing. If I embrace the latter, I can change everything.”

“If I’m on the ‘short-end of the stick’, there’s a really good chance that it was my shortness of vision that put me there.”

“I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.”

“God is our hope and strength. And hope never disappoints. (Romans 5:5). We can place our confidence in Him without fear.”

“Do not dwell on your loss. Look forward with bright new hopes.”

“If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there’s no use continuing such behavior when you’re dead.”

“Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.”