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    Bill Watterson
    “Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: disappointment, surprises
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    William Blake
    “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: betrayal, disappointment
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: disappointment, marriage
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    Patricia McCormick
    “Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”
    ― Patricia McCormick, Cut
    tags: cutting, disappointment, expectations, hope, life, strategy
    610 likes

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    Scott Turow
    “Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”
    ― Scott Turow
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    tags: disappointment
    813 likes

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    Mary Karr
    “What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.”
    ― Mary Karr, Lit
    tags: disappointment, hope, youth
    124 likes

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    Emily Giffin
    “...recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void...”
    ― Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter
    tags: disappointment, loss
    63 likes

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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what—there's more crud underneath those rocks.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
    tags: defeat, difficulties, disappointment, discouragement, life, misfortune, richelle, richelle-goodrich, setbacks, upset
    20 likes

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    Alethea Black
    “It's a fruitless task, explaining yourself," he said. He was enjoying confessing the truth for once. "Either people get you, or they don't. In fact, even when they get you, it's always…a disappointment.”
    ― Alethea Black, I Knew You'd Be Lovely: Stories
    tags: disappointment, explanations, imperfection
    18 likes

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  • #12
    David Levithan
    “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
    31 likes

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    Candace Bushnell
    “All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
    tags: dating, disappointment, feelings, life, men, numb
    311 likes

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    Jodi Picoult
    “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
    11837 likes

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    Joan D. Vinge
    “To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.”
    ― Joan D. Vinge, Psion
    tags: disappointment, effort
    19 likes

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  • #16
    Bill Watterson
    “I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: expectations, humor
    705 likes

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  • #17
    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom
    2712 likes

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  • #18
    Jodi Picoult
    “There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
    316 likes

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  • #19
    Valery Satterwhite
    “Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.”
    ― Valery Satterwhite
    tags: acceptance, expectations, letting-go
    317 likes

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  • #20
    Jeff Kinney
    “You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.”
    ― Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    tags: expectations
    421 likes

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  • #21
    Kelley Armstrong
    “Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.”
    ― Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
    tags: expectations, honesty
    96 likes

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    Robert E. Lee
    “It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.”
    ― Robert E. Lee
    tags: acceptance, expectations
    52 likes

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  • #23
    Miriam Toews
    “She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.”
    ― Miriam Toews
    49 likes

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    Samuel P. Huntington
    “Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.”
    ― Samuel P. Huntington
    tags: expectations
    56 likes

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    Peter Shaffer
    “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
    ― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise
    tags: life, life-lessons
    2978 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
    ― haruki murakami
    tags: letting-go, life, life-lessons, memories
    4587 likes

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  • #27
    “[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”
    ― Jenny O'Connell, The Book of Luke
    tags: honesty, life, life-lessons, love
    1561 likes

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    Steve Maraboli
    “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: empowerment, happiness, inspirational, life-lessons, motivational, problems
    2502 likes

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    Douglas Coupland
    “I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”
    ― Douglas Coupland
    tags: life-lessons
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    Haruki Murakami
    “In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: life, life-lessons, point-of-no-return, problems, struggles
    1921 likes

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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
    tags: life-lessons
    614 likes



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