All Quotes By Tag: Disappointment

“We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don’t. People and events don’t disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”

“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment – we are all defined by something we can’t change.”

“In that moment of disappointment, pause and remember that GOD has a better plan for you”

“I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.”

“The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it.”

“The universal story is composed of segments of anxiety, disappointment, profanity, prayers, heartache, tragedy, and despair.”

“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 the baby into the city’s reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”

“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”

“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”

“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 precedes all the great events in the heart’s history.”

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”

“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”

“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”

“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”