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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
Oct 1, 2025
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
Disappointment is often the salt of life.
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
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.
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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