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The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.
Sep 30, 2025
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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.
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.
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.
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.
But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.
But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
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.
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 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.
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.
People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!
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.
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.
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.
If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.
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.
I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.
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