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#1

“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.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#2

“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.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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#3

“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: disappointment, life, mistakes

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#4

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

tags: betrayal, disappointment

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#5

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope

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#6

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: aspirations, disappointment, disillusionment, goals

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#7

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: disappointment, dorian-gray, marriage, men, relationships, women

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#8

“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: disappointment, marriage

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#9

“If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.
By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: betrayal, bitterness, disappointment, take-root, vengeance

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#10

“I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. truth advances, & error recedes step by step only; and to do to our fellow-men the most good in our power, we must lead where we can, follow where we cannot, and still go with them, watching always the favorable moment for helping them to another step.

[Comment on establishing Jefferson's University of Virginia, a secular college, in a letter to Thomas Cooper 7 October 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: best, inspirational, opinion, theology, university-of-virginia

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#11

“The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with
disappointment to the ground”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

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#12

“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."

(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

tags: disappointment, disillusionment, gilding, idols, touch

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#13

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: disappointment

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#14

“When people change, I’m disappointed they’re not who I remember them being. And when people don’t change, I’m disappointed they still are who they were. All people do is disappoint, and I do mean all people.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

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#15

“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.”
― Tonya Hurley, Homecoming

tags: disappointment, expectations, ghostgirl

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#16

“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants

tags: articulate, disappointment, love

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#17

“Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.”
― L. M. Montgomery

tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, misattributed

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#18

“My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

tags: disappointment

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#19

“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: activity, disappointment

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#20

“You said you were a fairy princess
You said you were a shooting star
You said we'd go to Bora Bora
Now look at where the fuck we are”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

tags: disappointment, illusion, love

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#21

“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!”
― Charlotte Joko Beck

tags: compassion, disappointment, emotions, growth, life, suffering

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#22

“When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

tags: disappointment, dream, real

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#23

“I had nothing to fear from my father.
Except his disappointment.
Which was no small thing.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Escape

tags: disappointment, fear, tather

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#24

“Betrayed and wronged in everything,
I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,
And seek some spot unpeopled and apart
Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.”
― Molière, The Misanthrope

tags: disappointment, misanthropy, solitude

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#25

“I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.”
― David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories

tags: disappointment, good-bye, goodbye, hope

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#27

“People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.”
― Charmian Hussey, The Valley of Secrets

tags: disappointment, expectations

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#28

“The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it.”
― Vannary Rang

tags: disappointment, life, mistakes, sadness, truth

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#29

“Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: disappointment, surprises

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#30

“I do look for the good in everyone. I also give them a chance to be their best, and I try to cope with my disappointment when they're not”
― Laura Taylor, Intimate Strangers

tags: benefit, disappointment, good, people

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#31

“Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: disappointment, discouragement, failure, goals, optimism, pessimism, richelle, richelle-goodrich, stubbornness, trying

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