Disappointment Quotes - Page 6

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.

Shannon L. Alder

I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments

Robin Wasserman

I have never been sad because my losses are my profits

Praveen KC

Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, one's eyes, one's facial expression. How should the child be prepared for this specifically human ingenuity: the lie? Most of us are awakened, some more and some less brutally, to the fact that people often do not mean what they say or say the opposite of what they mean. And not only "people," but the very people we trusted most - our parents, teachers, leaders.

Erich Fromm

The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzled by the overwhelming credentials of science, the beauty and elegance of the scientific method, the triumph of modern medicine over physical ailments, and the technological transformation of the very world itself, the self finds itself in the end disappointed by the failure of science and technique in those very sectors of life which had been its main source of ordinary satisfaction in past ages.As John Cheever said, the main emotion of the adult Northeastern American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.Work is disappointing. In spite of all the talk about making work more creative and self-fulfilling, most people hate their jobs, and with good reason. Most work in modern technological societies is intolerably dull and repetitive.Marriage and family life are disappointing. Even among defenders of traditional family values, e.g., Christians and Jews, a certain dreariness must be inferred, if only from the average time of TV viewing. Dreary as TV is, it is evidently not as dreary as Mom talking to Dad or the kids talking to either.School is disappointing. If science is exciting and art is exhilarating, the schools and universities have achieved the not inconsiderable feat of rendering both dull. As every scientist and poet knows, one discovers both vocations in spite of, not because of, school. It takes years to recover from the stupor of being taught Shakespeare in English Lit and Wheatstone's bridge in Physics.Politics is disappointing. Most young people turn their backs on politics, not because of the lack of excitement of politics as it is practiced, but because of the shallowness, venality, and image-making as these are perceived through the media--one of the technology's greatest achievements.The churches are disappointing, even for most believers. If Christ brings us new life, it is all the more remarkable that the church, the bearer of this good news, should be among the most dispirited institutions of the age. The alternatives to the institutional churches are even more grossly disappointing, from TV evangelists with their blown-dry hairdos to California cults led by prosperous gurus ignored in India but embraced in La Jolla.Social life is disappointing. The very franticness of attempts to reestablish community and festival, by partying, by groups, by club, by touristy Mardi Gras, is the best evidence of the loss of true community and festival and of the loneliness of self, stranded as it is as an unspeakable consciousness in a world from which it perceives itself as somehow estranged, stranded even within its own body, with which it sees no clear connection. But there remains the one unquestioned benefit of science: the longer and healthier life made possible by modern medicine, the shorter work-hours made possible by technology, hence what is perceived as the one certain reward of dreary life of home and the marketplace: recreation.Recreation and good physical health appear to be the only ambivalent benefits of the technological revolution.

Walker Percy

I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.

Miles Franklin

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare. And it is desperately unfair to the boy. He cannot live his parents' life over again for them. He cannot make up for their own lacks, their own unfulfillments. He cannot carry their torch -- only his own.

Sydney J. Harris

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.

Ben Marcus

Children do not always appreciate their parents encouraging them to explore and grow. The selfishness of a child manifests itself in his or her intent to remain a child and never enter an adult world of distress, disappointment, and jadedly surrendering an envisioned life by making commitments that limit boundless options.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son out to skate before he can even walk. Or in the mother who gave up her ballet dreams when she married, but now scrapes her daughter's hair into a bun and watched from the wings of the stage. We are not, as you'd expect, orchestrating their lives; we are not even trying for a second chance. We are hoping that if this one thing takes root, it might take up enough light and space to keep something else from developing in our children: the disappointment we've already lived.

Jodi Picoult

Our infinitesimal hopes should survive longer than our vast disappointments

Munia Khan

When people give you disappointment, don't worry; they are only showing you this- appointment. Just look and see.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

In the moment of decision, may you hear the voice of the Creator saying, ‘This is right road, travel on it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep on exploring.Keep on evolving.Keep on experimenting.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be happy but when sad times come, know that God allow these time for self-realisation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

a crooked truth is far straight than a straight lie

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Criss Jami

Disappointment, fear, grief, unlove, dullness and guilt are the worst feelings. Learn from them so that you move on. Then replace them with more satisfying and promising joy, love gratitude, pride, confidence, direction.

Diana Jaber

We must discover our own path to joy and a sense of leading a purposeful existence. I spent the first part of life attempting to discern what a man ought to be, and spent the latter years attempting to reconcile why I was not the man whom I always aspired to be. A person endures a tragic consumption of the spirit when they discover that they are not what they desired to become.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

John Piper

I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them,...

Dodie Smith

No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!

Widad Akreyi

Every successful person had experience failure but they overcome with courage and adamant hope

Lailah Gifty Akita

You will conquer every mountain.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Challenges are part of life. Overcoming them makes you a stronger person.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We all get knock down in life. Encouragement lifted our spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to try again when you failure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God grant me the strength to endure all things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Accept things that will make you happy. This is the joy of sacred existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

And in that moment he realised that even though the dreams they’d seen together, hoped for and believed in had come true, it wasn’t enough. It was far from reality which was lonesome and woeful. And conceived that love had no lastingness, it was brief and momentary. It wasn’t the cherishable sensation spoken of in movies and written in books, rather a delusion inclined on ruining the very spirit, giving way to mournfulness and disappointment.

Chirag Tulsiani

Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

Callie Hunter

Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.

R.N. Prasher

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.

Stefan Zweig

Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not,’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way promise to meet all of my needs for no person, collection of people, institution, government or organization possesses the array of resources necessary to do that. And so, I am left with the reality that either there is a God who can meet all of my needs, or I’ve been stranded in an existence that created me with needs that the existence itself cannot meet.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.

Terry Pratchett

When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hang on! God will be thy strength in any act of your pursuit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who dare try are heroic souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Find the courage to live life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.

Suzy Kassem

But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.

R.J. Anderson

Disappointment is a blessing. If you were never disappointed, you'd never know what was important to you.

Kamand Kojouri

How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world quanter, funnier, kinder, and more mysterious than it actually was.

Armistead Maupin

He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out his foot of his own accord.

W Somerset Maugham

In this world, who can do a thing, will not;And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power —And thus we half-men struggle.

Robert Browning

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound,then from my eyes,my ears,my mouth.It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps of the porch. My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

E. Lockhart

May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit

Lailah Gifty Akita

Living by faith, living by hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In the midst of the turbulence, lift up your voice and praise God. He will fight the battle for you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May God give comfort to the suffering souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Lord save the suffering souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We must patiently endure the times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life experiences teaches me to depend absolute on God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We endure every adversity by grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The word of God is our glorious light for any dark situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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