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When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it!
Oct 1, 2025
It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.
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.
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.
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
The definition of disappointment in life is expectations minus reality equals disappointment. The only two solutions you have to get over disappointment is to either alter your reality or alter your expectations.
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.
The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.
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.
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.
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