Quotes by Disappointment There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. Margaret Atwood ducksofficedisappointment It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be! Margaret Thatcher distancedisappointmentambition There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment. Marion D. Hanks disappointmentevilbravery Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. Marilyn Monroe disappointmentdreaminspiring The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest? Mark Buchanan disappointmentreflectionthinking While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate. Mark Epstein buddhistdisappointmentmoving As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment. Mark Lawrence disappointmentmotherchildren She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. Markus Zusak disappointmentchangetime Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life. Marlene Dietrich realdisappointmenthands I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey. Mark Twain disappointmentbelievefather Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration. Martin Freeman comedyinspirationdisappointment I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment. Martin Freeman actorsdisappointmentthinking There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with. Martin Freeman familiarcomedydisappointment I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together. Mark Twain disappointmenttwoyears There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you. Martin Scorsese forcedisappointmentway Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances. Marvin J. Ashton realdisappointmentlove-is Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment. Mary Ann Shaffer unlikelypassiondisappointment It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy. Marvin J. Ashton communicationdisappointmenthurt Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all. Mary Balogh disappointmentsuccessfuldream Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment. Marvin J. Ashton impactadversitydisappointment«3334353637383940414243»
