Quotes About Disappointments

Why does that evening's memory Return with this night's storm - A party twenty years ago, Its disappointments warm? There are so many MIGHT-HAVE-BEENS WHAT-IFS that won't stay buried Other cities, other jobs Strangers we might have married And memory insists on pining For places it never went, As if life would be happier Just by being different

Sometimes the past seemed like enough, in comparison with the disappointments of the present.

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

If the enemy can isolate us, he can influence us. And his favorite entry point of all is through our disappointments

We must respect ourselves enough to break the pattern of placing unrealistic expectations on others. After all, people will not respect us more than we respect ourselves. No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

Dangerous desires birthed inside our unsettled disappointments are nothing but a setup for a takedown.

There is a satisfaction we don't want to come to until we come to it in God....[Disappointments] serve to remind us every day that we cannot make life work the way we want....If we'll let it, the disappointment can be God's way of continually drawing us back to himself.

Nonostante tutte le delusioni e le aspettative disattese, Marley ci aveva fatto un dono, spontaneo e inestimabile. Ci aveva insegnato l'arte dell0amore incondizionato. Come darlo, come accettarlo. Dove c'è quest'amore, gli altri pezzi vanno quasi sempre a posto.

The wise and the good never form the majority of any large society and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted.... [All that wise and good men can do is] to persevere in doing their duty to their country and leave the consequences to him who made men only; neither elated by success, however great, nor discouraged by disappointments however frequent or mortifying.

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

No matter your situation, your blessings always outweights the disappointments. Be grateful.

Her initial need to confide in someone arose from the first disappointments of her sensuality, emerging as naturally as the first satisfactions of love normally emerge. She had not as yet known love. A short time later she suffered from it, which is the only manner in which we get to know it.

Now Paul sees a formula: trials build patience, patience builds experience, and experience builds hope. As we handle life's challenges and disappointments in active, faithful patience, we grow in victory over despair and surrender. These experiences, lived in patience, build hope. Add the Holy Spirit to this mix, and our hearts and minds grow strong in the quiet glory of living life with God, no matter what we face.

How much more pleasant this world would be if we magnified our blessings the way we magnify our disappointments.

In your life you will deal with hurt, disappointments , heartaches , headaches, heartbreaks , liars, cheaters, players, fake friends, scandalous females, trust issues, backstabbers , gossipers , and most importantly deceitfulness. you have to expect a punch and take a tylenol , have dirt thrown on you and brush it off, be tripped but stand up stronger than ever ¥

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.

The road has not been paves all the way for any of us. We all have a small place in our hearts where we store our sorrows and disappointments. But are there not days when you are simply overwhelmed with the blessings of the Lord?

In our artificial civilization many young people at twenty-five are still on the threshold of activity. As one looks back then, over eight or nine years, one sees a panorama of seemingly formidable length. So many crises, so many startling surprises, so many vivid joys and harrowing humiliations and disappointments, that one feels startlingly old; one wonders if one will ever feel so old again. —Youth and Life, Randolph S. Bourne (1886–1918) Even now, when I have come

Recovering alcoholics have an expression: "If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today." With all that's happened, it's been liberating to understand that I don't have to carry the weight of all my disappointments or expectations. Sometimes it just is what it is. I can accept that.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

The decay of power creates fertile soil for demagogic challengers who exploit disappointments with incumbents, promise change, and take advantage of the bewildering noise created by the proliferation of actors, voices, and proposals. The confusion created by changes that come too fast, that are too disruptive and undercut old certainties and ways of doing things—all by-products of the More, Mobility, and Mentality revolutions—offer great opportunities for leaders with bad ideas.

One thing I've always wondered—why did you enter that bikini contest when you were a teenager?" Her face flushed with a mixture of anger and embarrassment. "How far back did you trace me?" "Far enough." A pause. "You didn't answer my question." "And you didn't turn into a puff of smoke and disappear. The world is full of disappointments.

Then the patience borne of seventy years of disappointments came to his aid;