Quotes: Disappointments

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

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

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they’re on target.

Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

I thought we were going to win the game but we won’t take the disappointments, we will take the positives.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.