Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

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.

I think it would be a disappointment if we didn’t win the NL East.

It was a big disappointment right after the match. Even during, at certain times.

I was planning on working this week, then going to Detroit. It’s a disappointment.

She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to see again.

A bronze medal would be nice too, but it?s a big disappointment.

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

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...

What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing

Greed affects the mind; disappointment makes man depressed.

There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied—who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy. It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably...

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.

I have never been sad because my losses are my profits

Jeg trodde jeg var skuffet – og jeg tenkte det var fordi jeg hadde lengtet så meget og drømt så meget, at alt jeg ville få se, skulle bli blekt og fattig imot mine drømer. Har De lagt merke til når man ligger en sommerdag i solen med lukkede øyne ? Når man åpner dem,...

Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she’d booked passage on a sinking ship. There aren’t any jobs, the other students informed her; the profession’s glutted with tenured old men who won’t step aside for the next generation. While the university’s busy exploiting you for cheap labor, you...

Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.

Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?…He holds back for our sakes. Re-creation involves us; we are, in fact, at the center of his plan…the motive behind all human history, is to develop us, not God. Our very existence announces to the powers in...

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day’s wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

Was I still myself? If so, who was I? I wasn’t really interested in knowing that. It had no sort of importance for me anymore. Some moorings had broken, some taboos had fallen, and a world of spells and anathemas was springing up from their ruins. What was terrifying about this whole affair was the...

You may have to disappoint some people in order to be true to yourself. That’s OK. Their disappointment has nothing to do with you.

Fox has been a disappointment. He has not been a total failure. But all of a sudden we find that some of the instruments that make democracy possible are not working.

Ah, I believe Schacht. Only too willingly; that’s to say, I think what he says is absolutely true, for the world is incomprehensibly crass, tyrannical, moody, and cruel to sickly and sensitive people. Well, Schacht will stay here for the time being. We laughed at him a bit, when he arrived, that can’t be helped...

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 will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.–Mon Semblable

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

It’s certainly lower than expectations so in that sense it was a disappointment, but the key thing is that this is still appreciably better as a growth rate than the long-term average, which is only about 3 percent,

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

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

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.

Don’t let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow’s blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

We may have agreed to end it kitty , but that didnt inlcude being warm and kind to me as a human

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;

I know I could have been up at the front fighting with the leaders. I’m really speechless with disappointment.

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.

They torture us but could not kill our spirit. We have greater divine power, guiding and protecting us.

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you’d ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

The Ballad of Lucy JordanThe morning sun touched lightly on the eyes of Lucy JordanIn a white suburban bedroom in a white suburban townAs she lay there ‘neath the covers dreaming of a thousand loversTill the world turned to orange and the room went spinning round.At the age of thirty-seven she realised she’d neverRide through...

I have never taken sides, never leaped wholeheartedly into one scale or the other; nor do I realize disappointments, provided they are severe, until the occasion is long past. Yet I am ruled by my emotions, though I murder them at birth.

When we confuse the needs with the desires; all the struggles we take lead to failure and disappointment.

In the game of life;Sometimes we win,Sometimes we loss,Either ways, we should always keep playing.

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, they sour, they devour, and they can kill their hosts. Disappointment is a deadly companion. We didn’t yet know how many of us would end up in its grip, because we were all still striving, and some of...

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

I didn’t ask you to give up anything for me,” she told him, “but I would have given up everything for you.” The war is over, and I have lost. War. Ha! As if she could have fought a dead woman. The battle had been over before it began. “Until the end of forever, Layel.”...

It’s more of a surprise. Disappointment? No. We won the league last year and we were a 12th seed, so we’ve improved.

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

The white policeman was a man who gave an impression of heaviness. It wasn’t that he was fat, but he sagged as if with a moral or psychic burden; his shoulders sagged, his eyes sagged, his suit sagged and he sat sagged in his chair, as if his disappointments with the world were bearing down...