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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.
The real story of Netflix is complicated: an epic tale full of struggle, disappointment, drama, humor, and achievement.
When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.
Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.
That's part of what I tried to describe to my team and supporters after the election, there was a lot of disappointment.
Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.
Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.
I have all my ex-girlfriends lumped into one big girlfriend I called M.A.N.D.Y.: My, Another Neurotic Disappointment? Yes.
When the bottom falls out and disappointments come, you will learn what you believe, what you love, and what you treasure.
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.
When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.
At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.
When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.
If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.
We had an agreement with Borussia that I could leave. It didn't happen. It is a disappointment. But I'm also happy to stay.
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.
I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
Do you have any sort of plan?” Jack asked. “Not really.” “Eh, just as well. It’ll be less of a disappointment when you fail.
I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.
I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.
He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on
Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
Football helped me build confidence on and off the field and taught me to grow through moments of success and disappointment.
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.
If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.
I don't think there's any disappointment in my career because everything that maybe didn't go my way was a learning experience.
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?
Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.
Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.